Code page 855

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OEM-855
Octets in CP855 ordered by nibbles.png
MIME / IANAIBM855
Alias(es)cp855, 855 [1]
Language(s) Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian (partial)
Classification Extended ASCII, OEM code page
Based on Code page 437 / 850
Transforms / Encodes ISO-8859-5, ISO-IR-111
Other related encoding(s) IBM-872

Code page 855 (CCSID 855) (also known as CP 855, IBM 00855, OEM 855, MS-DOS Cyrillic [2] ) is a code page used under DOS to write Cyrillic script. [3]

Code page 872 (CCSID 872) is the euro currency update of code page/CCSID 855. [4] Byte CF replaces ¤ with € in that code page. [5] [6]

It supports the repertoires of ISO-8859-5 and ISO-IR-111 (in a different arrangement), in addition to preserving the semigraphic and box-drawing characters and guillemets from code page 850.

At one time it was widely used in Serbia, Macedonia and Bulgaria, but it never caught on in Russia, where Code page 866 was more common. This code page is not used much.

Character set

The following table shows code page 855. Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point. Only the second half of the table (code points 128–255) is shown, the first half (code points 0–127) being the same as code page 437.

Code page 855 [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
0123456789ABCDEF
8x ђ Ђ ѓ Ѓ ё Ё є Є ѕ Ѕ і І ї Ї ј Ј
9x љ Љ њ Њ ћ Ћ ќ Ќ ў Ў џ Џ ю Ю ъ Ъ
Ax а А б Б ц Ц д Д е Е ф Ф г Г « »
Bx ░ ▒ ▓ │ ┤ х Х и И ╣ ║ ╗ ╝ й Й ┐
Cx └ ┴ ┬ ├ ─ ┼ к К ╚ ╔ ╩ ╦ ╠ ═ ╬ ¤
Dx л Л м М н Н о О п ┘ ┌ █ ▄ П я ▀
Ex Я р Р с С т Т у У ж Ж в В ь Ь №
Fx SHY ы Ы з З ш Ш э Э щ Щ ч Ч § ■ NBSP

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Windows-1251 is an 8-bit character encoding, designed to cover languages that use the Cyrillic script such as Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic, Macedonian and other languages.

Code page 850

Code page 850 is a code page used under DOS and Psion’s EPOC16 operating systems in Western Europe. Depending on the country setting and system configuration, code page 850 is the primary code page and default OEM code page in many countries, including various English-speaking locales, whilst other English-speaking locales default to use the hardware code page 437.

Code page 866

Code page 866 is a code page used under DOS and OS/2 in Russia to write Cyrillic script. It is based on the "alternative code page" developed in 1984 in IHNA AS USSR and published in 1986 by a research group at the Academy of Science of the USSR. The code page was widely used during the DOS era because it preserves all of the pseudographic symbols of code page 437 and maintains alphabetic order of Cyrillic letters. Initially, this encoding was only available in the Russian version of MS-DOS 4.01 (1990) and since MS-DOS 6.22 in any language version.

Code page 852 is a code page used under DOS to write Central European languages that use Latin script.

Code page 865 is a code page used under DOS in Denmark and Norway to write Nordic languages.

Code page 860 is a code page used under DOS in Portugal to write Portuguese and it is also suitable to write Spanish and Italian. In Brazil, however, the most widespread codepage – and that which DOS in Brazilian portuguese used by default – was code page 850.

Code page 863 is a code page used under DOS in Canada to write French although it lacks the letters Æ, æ, Œ, œ, Ÿ and ÿ.

Code page 857 is a code page used under DOS in Turkey to write Turkish.

Code page 737

Code page 737 is a code page used under DOS to write the Greek language. It was much more popular than code page 869 although it lacks the letters ΐ and ΰ.

Code page 869 is a code page used under DOS to write Greek language. It is also called DOS Greek 2. It was designed to include all characters from ISO 8859-7.

Code page 861 is a code page used under DOS in Iceland to write the Icelandic language.

Code page 858 is a code page used under DOS to write Western European languages.

Windows code pages are sets of characters or code pages used in Microsoft Windows from the 1980s and 1990s. Windows code pages were gradually superseded when Unicode was implemented in Windows, although they are still supported both within Windows and other platforms, and still apply when Alt code shortcuts are used.

Code page 862 is a code page used under DOS in Israel for Hebrew.

Code page 775 is a code page used under DOS to write the Estonian, Lithuanian and Latvian languages. In Lithuania, this code page is standardised as LST 1590-1, alongside the related Code page 778.

Code page 720 is a code page used under DOS to write Arabic in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. The Windows (ANSI) code page for Arabic is Windows-1256.

Code page 851 is a code page used under DOS to write Greek language although it lacks the letters Ϊ and Ϋ. It covers the German language as well. It also covers some accented letters of the French language, but it lacks most of the accented capital letters required for French. It is also called MS-DOS Greek 1.

Code page 856, is a code page used under DOS for Hebrew in Israel.

Code page 921 is a code page used under IBM AIX and DOS to write the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian languages. It is an extension of ISO/IEC 8859-13.

References

  1. ↑ Character Sets, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), 2018-12-12
  2. ↑ "Code Page 855 MS-DOS Cyrillic". Developing International Software. Microsoft. Retrieved 3 Nov 2011.
  3. ↑ "CCSID 855 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-27.
  4. ↑ "CCSID 872 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-27.
  5. ↑ Code Page CPGID 00872 (pdf) (PDF), IBM
  6. ↑ Code Page CPGID 00872 (txt), IBM
  7. ↑ "OEM 855". Go Global Developer Center. Microsoft. Retrieved 11 Oct 2011.
  8. ↑ "cp855_DOSCyrillic to Unicode table" (TXT). The Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 13 Nov 2011.
  9. ↑ Code Page CPGID 00855 (pdf) (PDF), IBM
  10. ↑ Code Page CPGID 00855 (txt), IBM
  11. ↑ International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-855_P100-1995.ucm, 2002-12-03
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