Windows 2000 supports a set of specific code pages and character sets including Windows, OEM, and ISO 8859.
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/webresources
Table 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 |
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 |
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 |