Supported Code Pages
Windows 2000 supports a set of specific code pages and character sets including Windows, OEM, and ISO 8859.
Windows
Tables 16.3 and 16.4 each show a list of Windows code pages. To see the complete list of character codes and what they represent, go to the Microsoft Global Software Development: Windows Codepages link on the Web Resources page at http://windows.microsoft.com/windows2000/reskit/webresourcesTable 16.3 SBCS (Single-byte Character Set) Code Pages
| Code Page Number | Code Page Name |
|---|---|
| 1250 | Central Europe |
| 1251 | Cyrillic |
| 1252 | Latin I |
| 1253 | Greek |
| 1254 | Turkish |
| 1255 | Hebrew |
| 1256 | Arabic |
| 1257 | Baltic |
| 1258 | Vietnamese |
| 874 | Thai |
Table 16.4 DBCS (Double-byte Character Set) Code Pages
| Code Page Number | Code Page Name |
|---|---|
| 932 | Japanese Shift-JIS |
| 936 | Simplified Chinese GBK |
| 949 | Korean |
| 950 | Traditional Chinese Big5 |
OEM
Table 16.5 shows a list of OEM code pages. To see the complete list of character codes and what they represent, go to the <<Microsoft OEM Code Reference>> link on the Web Resources page at http://windows.microsoft.com/windows2000/reskit/webresources.Table 16.5 Common OEM Code Pages
| Code Page Number | Code Page Name |
|---|---|
| 437 | US |
| 720 | Arabic |
| 737 | Greek |
| 775 | Baltic |
| 850 | Western Europe |
| 852 | Central Europe |
| 855 | Cyrillic |
| 857 | Turkish |
| 862 | Hebrew |
| 866 | Cyrillic II |
The code pages shown in Table 16.6 are used as both Windows ANSI and OEM code pages.Table 16.6 Common Windows ANSI and OEM Code Pages
| Code Page Number | Code Page Name |
|---|---|
| 874 | Thai |
| 932 | Japanese Shift-JIS |
| 936 | Simplified Chinese GBK |
| 949 | Korean |
| 950 | Traditional Chinese Big5 |
| 1258 | Vietnamese |
ISO 8859
Table 16.7 shows a list of ISO 8859 code pages. To see the complete list of character codes and what they represent, go to the <<Microsoft ISO 8859 Code Reference>> link on the Web Resources page at http://windows.microsoft.com/windows2000/reskit/webresources.Table 16.7 Common ISO 8859 Code Pages
| Code Page Number | Code Page Name |
|---|---|
| ISO-8859-1 | Latin 1 |
| ISO-8859-2 | Latin 2 |
| ISO-8859-3 | Latin 3 |
| ISO-8859-4 | Baltic |
| ISO-8859-5 | Cyrillic |
| ISO-8859-6 | Arabic |
| ISO-8859-7 | Greek |
| ISO-8859-8 | Hebrew |
| ISO-8859-9 | Turkish |
| ISO-8859-15 | Latin 9 |