The code page 850 is a code page which was used in occidental Europe, under systems such as DOS. It has been largely replaced with ISO 8859-1 and UTF-8, but is still sometimes used. Code page is the traditional IBM term used for a specific character encoding table: a mapping in which a sequence of bits, usually a single octet representing integer values 0 through 255, is associated with a specific character. ... The acronym DOS stands for disk operating system, an operating system component for computers that provides the abstraction of a file system resident on hard disk or floppy disk secondary storage. ... ISO 8859-1, more formally cited as ISO/IEC 8859-1 or less formally as Latin-1, is part 1 of ISO/IEC 8859, a standard character encoding originally developed by ISO, but later jointly maintained by ISO and IEC. The standard, when supplemented with additional character assignments, is the... UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a lossless, variable-length character encoding for Unicode created by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike. ...

CP850 differs from CP437 in that many of the box drawing characters, Greek letters and various symbols have been replaced with additional Latin letters with diacritics, thus greatly improving support for Western European languages (all characters from ISO 8859-1 are included). IBM PC or MS-DOS Codepage 437, also known as DOS-US or OEM-US, is the original character set of the IBM PC, from 1981. ... Box drawing characters are widely used in text user interfaces to draw various frames and boxes. ... The Greek language is written in the Greek alphabet, developed in classical times (ca 9th century BC) and passed down to the present. ...

A modification of CP850 is CP858, differing only in the codepoint 0xD5: a dotless-i (ı) in CP850, which is replaced with a euro sign (€) in CP858. Code page 858 (CP 858, IBM 858, OEM 858) is a code page to be used under MS-DOS to write Western European languages. ... The euro (€; ISO 4217 code EUR) is the currency of twelve European Union member states: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. ...

Codepage layout

Only the upper half (128–255) of the table is shown, the lower half (0–127) being plain ASCII. There are 95 printable ASCII characters, numbered 32 to 126. ...

See also

• Comparison of western latin character sets