Code page 850

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Code page 850 is a code page that was used in western Europe, under systems such as DOS. It was also sometimes used on English DOS systems although CP437 was generally the default on those. It was largely replaced first with windows-1252 (often mislabeled as ISO-8859-1) and later by UCS-2 and finally UTF-16 (while the NT line was natively unicode from the start issues of development tool support and compatibility with windows 9x kept most applications on the 8 bit code pages). According to Microsoft, it is obsolete and unsupported.

CP850 differs from CP437 in that many of the box drawing characters, Greek letters, and various symbols were replaced with additional Latin letters with diacritics, thus greatly improving support for Western European languages (all characters from ISO 8859-1 are included). At the same time, the changes frequently caused display glitches in programs that actually made use of the box drawing characters to display a GUI-like surface in text mode, such as the ubiquitous Turbo Pascal.

A modification of CP850 is CP858, differing only in the character at position D5_HEX: a dotless-i (ı) in CP850, which is replaced with a euro sign (€) in CP858.

[edit] Code page layout

Note: Italicized numbers denote the decimal equivalent.

	.0	.1	.2	.3	.4	.5	.6	.7	.8	.9	.A	.B	.C	.D	.E	.F
0.	NULL 0 0	☺ 263A 1	☻ 263B 2	♥ 2665 3	♦ 2666 4	♣ 2663 5	♠ 2660 6	• 2022 7	◘ 25D8 8	○ 25CB 9	◙ 25D9 10	♂ 2642 11	♀ 2640 12	♪ 266A 13	♫ 266B 14	☼ 263C 15
1.	► 25BA 16	◄ 25C4 17	↕ 2195 18	‼ 203C 19	¶ B6 20	§ A7 21	▬ 25AC 22	↨ 21A8 23	↑ 2191 24	↓ 2193 25	→ 2192 26	← 2190 27	∟ 221F 28	↔ 2194 29	▲ 25B2 30	▼ 25BC 31
2.	20 32	! 21 33	" 22 34	# 23 35	$ 24 36	% 25 37	& 26 38	' 27 39	( 28 40	) 29 41	* 2A 42	+ 2B 43	, 2C 44	- 2D 45	. 2E 46	/ 2F 47
3.	0 30 48	1 31 49	2 32 50	3 33 51	4 34 52	5 35 53	6 36 54	7 37 55	8 38 56	9 39 57	: 3A 58	; 3B 59	< 3C 60	= 3D 61	> 3E 62	? 3F 63
4.	@ 40 64	A 41 65	B 42 66	C 43 67	D 44 68	E 45 69	F 46 70	G 47 71	H 48 72	I 49 73	J 4A 74	K 4B 75	L 4C 76	M 4D 77	N 4E 78	O 4F 79
5.	P 50 80	Q 51 81	R 52 82	S 53 83	T 54 84	U 55 85	V 56 86	W 57 87	X 58 88	Y 59 89	Z 5A 90	[ 5B 91	\ 5C 92	] 5D 93	^ 5E 94	_ 5F 95
6.	` 60 96	a 61 97	b 62 98	c 63 99	d 64 100	e 65 101	f 66 102	g 67 103	h 68 104	i 69 105	j 6A 106	k 6B 107	l 6C 108	m 6D 109	n 6E 110	o 6F 111
7.	p 70 112	q 71 113	r 72 114	s 73 115	t 74 116	u 75 117	v 76 118	w 77 119	x 78 120	y 79 121	z 7A 122	{ 7B 123	| 7C 124	} 7D 125	~ 7E 126	⌂ 2302 127
8.	Ç C7 128	ü FC 129	é E9 130	â E2 131	ä E4 132	à E0 133	å E5 134	ç E7 135	ê EA 136	ë EB 137	è E8 138	ï EF 139	î EE 140	ì EC 141	Ä C4 142	Å C5 143
9.	É C9 144	æ E6 145	Æ C6 146	ô F4 147	ö F6 148	ò F2 149	û FB 150	ù F9 151	ÿ FF 152	Ö D6 153	Ü DC 154	ø F8 155	£ A3 156	Ø D8 157	× D7 158	ƒ 192 159
A.	á E1 160	í ED 161	ó F3 162	ú FA 163	ñ F1 164	Ñ D1 165	ª AA 166	º BA 167	¿ BF 168	® AE 169	¬ AC 170	½ BD 171	¼ BC 172	¡ A1 173	« AB 174	» BB 175
B.	░ 2591 176	▒ 2592 177	▓ 2593 178	│ 2502 179	┤ 2524 180	Á C1 181	Â C2 182	À C0 183	© A9 184	╣ 2563 185	║ 2551 186	╗ 2557 187	╝ 255D 188	¢ A2 189	¥ A5 190	┐ 2510 191
C.	└ 2514 192	┴ 2534 193	┬ 252C 194	├ 251C 195	─ 2500 196	┼ 253C 197	ã E3 198	Ã C3 199	╚ 255A 200	╔ 2554 201	╩ 2569 202	╦ 2566 203	╠ 2560 204	═ 2550 205	╬ 256C 206	¤ A4 207
D.	ð F0 208	Ð D0 209	Ê CA 210	Ë CB 211	È C8 212	ı 131 213	Í CD 214	Î CE 215	Ï CF 216	┘ 2518 217	┌ 250C 218	█ 2588 219	▄ 2584 220	¦ A6 221	Ì CC 222	▀ 2580 223
E.	Ó D3 224	ß DF 225	Ô D4 226	Ò D2 227	õ F5 228	Õ D5 229	µ B5 230	þ FE 231	Þ DE 232	Ú DA 233	Û DB 234	Ù D9 235	ý FD 236	Ý DD 237	¯ AF 238	´ B4 239
F.	­ AD 240	± B1 241	‗ 2017 242	¾ BE 243	¶ B6 244	§ A7 245	÷ F7 246	¸ B8 247	° B0 248	¨ A8 249	· B7 250	¹ B9 251	³ B3 252	² B2 253	■ 25A0 254	A0 255

• The C0 control range (0x00–0x1F hex) is mapped to graphics characters. The codes can assume their original function as controls (as they still do—typing "echo", space, control-G and then Enter causes the PC speaker to emit a beep—even on the command prompt on Windows XP), but in display, for example in a screen editor like MS-DOS edit, they show as graphics. The graphics are various, such as smiling faces, card suits and musical notes. Code 0x7F, DEL, similarly shows as a graphic (a house).

[edit] See also

• Western Latin character sets (computing)