Mazovia encoding

"CP790" redirects here. For the printer, see Canon SELPHY CP790.

Mazovia encoding is used under MS-DOS to represent Polish texts. Basically it is code page 437 with some positions filled with Polish letters. An important feature was that the block graphic characters of code page 437 remained unchanged. In contrast, IBM's official Central-European code page 852 did not preserve all block graphics, causing incorrect display in programs such as Norton Commander.

The Mazovia encoding was designed in 1984 by Jan Klimowicz of IMM. It was designed as part of a project to develop and produce a Polish IBM PC clone codenamed "Mazovia 1016". The code page was therefore optimized for that computer's typical peripheral devices, a graphics card with dual switchable graphics, a keyboard using US English and Russian layouts and printers with Polish fonts. In 1986, the Polish National Bank (NBP) adopted the Mazovia encoding as a standard, thereby causing its widespread acceptance and distribution in Poland. They also were instrumental in Ipaco producing compatible computers with Taiwanese components under the direction of Zbigniew Jakubas and Krzysztof Sochacki.

Some ambiguity exists in the official code page assignment for the Mazovia encoding:

PTS-DOS and S/DOS support this encoding under code page 667 (CP667).[1] The same encoding was also called code page 991 (CP991) in some Polish software,[nb 1] however, the FreeDOS implementation of code page 991 seems not to be identical to this original encoding. The DOS code page switching file NECPINW.CPI for NEC Pinwriters supports the Mazovia encoding under both code pages 667 and 991.[1] FreeDOS has meanwhile introduced support for the original Mazovia encoding under code page 790 (CP790) as well.

Code page layout

Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point and its decimal code point. Only the second half of the table (code points 128255) is shown, the first half (code points 0127) being the same as ASCII and code page 437. Code points 128133, 135140, 142, 147148, 150151, 153155, 157, 159, 162, 168255 are identical to code page 437 as well.[2]

Several variants of this encoding exists:

These variants are not fully compliant with the definition of code page 667 / 790 and should therefore not be associated with these numbers.

Differences from code page 437 have a black border, code points used for multiple purposes in code page 437 are shaded.

Code page 667 / 790
_0 _1 _2 _3 _4 _5 _6 _7 _8 _9 _A _B _C _D _E _F
 
8_
 
Ç
00C7
128
ü
00FC
129
é
00E9
130
â
00E2
131
ä
00E4
132
à
00E0
133
ą
0105
134
ç
00E7
135
ê
00EA
136
ë
00EB
137
è
00E8
138
ï
00EF
139
î
00EE
140
ć
0107
141
Ä
00C4
142
Ą
0104
143
 
9_
 
Ę
0118
144
ę
0119
145
ł
0142
146
ô
00F4
147
ö
00F6
148
Ć
0106
149
û
00FB
150
ù
00F9
151
Ś
015A
152
Ö
00D6
153
Ü
00DC
154
¢
00A2
155
Ł
0141
156
¥
00A5
157
ś
015B
158
ƒ
0192
159
 
A_
 
Ź
0179
160
Ż
017B
161
ó
00F3
162
Ó
00D3
163
ń
0144
164
Ń
0143
165
ź
017A
166
ż
017C
167
¿
00BF
168

2310
169
¬
00AC
170
½
00BD
171
¼
00BC
172
¡
00A1
173
«
00AB
174
»
00BB
175
 
B_
 

2591
176

2592
177

2593
178

2502
179

2524
180

2561
181

2562
182

2556
183

2555
184

2563
185

2551
186

2557
187

255D
188

255C
189

255B
190

2510
191
 
C_
 

2514
192

2534
193

252C
194

251C
195

2500
196

253C
197

255E
198

255F
199

255A
200

2554
201

2569
202

2566
203

2560
204

2550
205

256C
206

2567
207
 
D_
 

2568
208

2564
209

2565
210

2559
211

2558
212

2552
213

2553
214

256B
215

256A
216

2518
217

250C
218

2588
219

2584
220

258C
221

2590
222

2580
223
 
E_
 
α
03B1
224
ß
00DF
225
Γ
0393
226
π
03C0
227
Σ
03A3
228
σ
03C3
229
µ
00B5
230
τ
03C4
231
Φ
03A6
232
Θ
0398
233
Ω
03A9
234
δ
03B4
235

221E
236
φ
03C6
237
ε
03B5
238

2229
239
 
F_
 

2261
240
±
00B1
241

2265
242

2264
243

2320
244

2321
245
÷
00F7
246

2248
247
°
00B0
248

2219
249
·
00B7
250

221A
251

207F
252
²
00B2
253

25A0
254
NBSP
00A0
255
_0 _1 _2 _3 _4 _5 _6 _7 _8 _9 _A _B _C _D _E _F

Notes

  1. The Polish text converter PLC, developed by Marcin Gryszkalis between 1997-1999, supports the standard Mazovia encoding under code page 991 as well as under the symbolic handle MAZ. The Fidonet Mazovia encoding is supported under symbolic handle MFD instead.

    References

    1. 1 2 Paul, Matthias (2001) [1996], "Specification and reference documentation for NECPINW", NECPINW.CPI - DOS code page switching driver for NEC Pinwriters (2.08 ed.), FILESPEC.TXT from NECPI208.ZIP, retrieved 2013-04-22
    2. Pinwriter Familie - Pinwriter - Epromsockel - Zusätzliche Zeichensätze / Schriftarten (Printed reference manual for optional font and codepage EPROMs for NEC Pinwriters, including custom variants) (in German) (00 3/93 ed.), NEC Deutschland GmbH, 1993 (NB. Some dot matrix printers of the NEC Pinwriter series, namely the P3200/P3300 (P20/P30), P6200/P6300 (P60/P70), P9300 (P90), P7200/P7300 (P62/P72), P22Q/P32Q, P3800/P3900 (P42Q/P52Q), P1200/P1300 (P2Q/P3Q), P2000 (P2X) and P8000 (P72X), supported the installation of optional font EPROMs, where this encoding was included in ROM #8 "Polish".)

      See also

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