code_page(5)							File Formats Manual						      code_page(5)

NAME

       code_page,  cp437,  cp737,  cp775, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861, cp862, cp863, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, cp932, cp936, cp949,
       cp950, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254, cp1255, cp1256, cp1257, cp1258, dingbats, symbol - Coded character sets that are used on Mi-
       crosoft Windows and NT systems

DESCRIPTION

       Code  pages are coded character sets that are used on Microsoft Windows, Windows 95, and NT systems. Just as there are different UNIX code-
       sets, there are different PC code pages, each supporting a particular set of character encodings.

       A Tru64 UNIX system supplies one locale, en_US.cp850, that directly supports a PC code-page format (MS-DOS Latin 1). For all other locales,
       data  in  code-page  format  is supported only through codeset converters.  These converters can be run directly by users or by software or
       applications that exchange data between PC and Tru64 UNIX systems. Fonts and other kinds of character support are available  only  for  the
       native UNIX codeset to which a code page can be converted. See the i18n_intro(5) reference page for introductory information on locales and
       codesets. See the iconv_intro(5) reference page for an introduction to codeset conversion and the name format and location of codeset  con-
       verters.

       The  following  table  lists  and describes the code pages that have conversion support on a Tru64 UNIX system. An asterisk (*) follows the
       names of code pages that include support for the Euro currency sign (C=).

       ------------------------------------------------------
       Code Page   Description
       ------------------------------------------------------
       cp437	   MS-DOS United States
       cp737	   Greek
       cp775	   Baltic languages (1)
       cp850	   MS-DOS Multilingual (Latin-1)
       cp852	   MS-DOS Slavic (Latin-2)
       cp855	   IBM Cyrillic
       cp857	   IBM Turkish
       cp860	   MS-DOS Portuguese
       cp861	   MS-DOS Icelandic
       cp862	   Hebrew
       cp863	   MS-DOS Canadian French
       cp865	   MS-DOS Nordic languages
       cp866	   MS-DOS Russian
       cp869	   IBM Modern Greek
       cp874 *	   MS-DOS Thai
       cp932	   Japanese
       cp936	   Chinese (People's Republic of China)
       cp949	   Korean
       cp950	   Chinese (Hong Kong)
       cp1250 *    Windows Latin-2
       cp1251 *    Windows Cyrillic
       cp1252 *    Windows Latin-1
       cp1253 *    Windows Greek
       cp1254 *    Windows Turkish
       cp1255 *    Windows Hebrew
       cp1256 *    Windows Arabic
       cp1257 *    Windows Baltic (1)
       cp1258 *    Windows Vietnamese
       dingbats    Microsoft dingbat characters
       symbol	   Microsoft miscellaneous symbol characters
       ------------------------------------------------------

       (1) Baltic languages include Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian.

       (2) Latin-2 languages include Albanian, Croatian, Czech, Faeroese, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Latin Serbian, Slovak, and Slovenian.

       (3) Cyrillic languages include Byelorussian, Bulgarian, and Russian.

       In all cases, a code page can be converted to and from the UCS-2, UCS-4, and UTF-8 codesets. In addition, some code pages can be  converted
       directly to ISO codesets as shown in the following table, although some data loss may occur.

       ------------------------------------------
       Code Page   Can Be Converted Directly to:
       ------------------------------------------
       cp437	   ISO8859-1
       cp737	   ISO8859-7
       cp775	   ISO8859-4
       cp850	   ISO8859-1
       cp852	   ISO8859-2
       cp855	   ISO8859-5
       cp857	   ISO8859-9
       cp860	   ISO8859-1
       cp861	   ISO8859-1
       cp862	   ISO8859-8
       cp863	   ISO8859-1
       cp865	   ISO8859-1
       cp866	   ISO8859-5
       cp869	   ISO8859-7
       cp874	   TACTIS
       cp1252	   ISO8859-1, ISO8859-15
       ------------------------------------------

       See  Unicode(5)	for  information about UCS-2, UCS-4, and UTF-8. Reference pages for UNIX implementations of the ISO codesets have the name
       format iso8859-number(5).

       For Traditional Chinese and Japanese, there are no codeset converters whose names include the name of a code page because identical charac-
       ter encoding is provided in existing UNIX codesets. For Traditional Chinese, character encoding in PC code-page format (cp950) is identical
       to that in the Big-5 (big5) codeset. For Japanese, character encoding in PC code-page format (cp932) is identical to that in the Shift  JIS
       (SJIS)  codeset. Therefore, the codeset converters whose names include big5 and SJIS can be used to convert data in and out of PC code-page
       format for the supported languages.

						 Caution for Conversion of Korean and Simplified Chinese

       Conversion of text that starts out in code-page format (cp949) to the DEC Korean (deckorean) codeset may result in loss of data. All of the
       Tru64  UNIX codeset equivalents for cp949 support all the Hanja and miscellaneous characters also supported by the code page. However, only
       the UCS-2, UCS-4, and UTF-8 codesets support the complete set of Hangul characters supported by the cp949 code page.  The deckorean codeset
       supports  only a subset of these Hangul characters. Therefore, if data is converted from cp949 format to UCS-2, UCS-4, or UTF-8, no data is
       lost. However, if the data is then converted from UCS-2, UCS-4, or UTF-8 to deckorean, the unsupported Hangul characters will be lost.

       The DEC Hanzi (dechanzi) codeset uses the same encoding format as the PC code page used for Simplified Chinese (cp936) but does not support
       all  the  characters  supported by the code page.  Therefore, you can use converters with dechanzi in the converter name to convert text to
       and from cp936 format, but the operation may result in some loss of data.

SEE ALSO

       Commands: iconv(1)

       Functions: iconv(3), iconv_close(3), iconv_open(3)

       Others: i18n_intro(5), iconv_intro(5), iso8859-1(5), iso8859-2(5), iso8859-4(5), iso8859-5(5), iso8859-7(5),  iso8859-8(5),  iso8859-15(5),
       Unicode(5)

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