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Code page is another term for character encoding. It consists of a table of values that describes the character set for a particular language.

Code page is another term for , popular with some vendors (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, etc). It consists of a table of values that describes the character set for a particular language.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page

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How do I convert DOS ANSI (CP 437) files to Unix ANSI with Unicode?

ANSI files from http://blocktronics.org/ seem to be using another ANSI encoding than the one supported in my VT100 terminal emulator. If I view those files with tetraview, they look decent. But if I view them with less -r the block characters aren't…
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SQL Server 2005 CodePage Issue

I have a problem I am trying to resolve. We have a SQL Server 2005 running a commercial ERP system. The implication for this is that we cannot change the database structure and all of the character fields are CHAR or VARCHAR rather than Unicode…
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postgreSQL COPY command error

Hallo everyone once again, I did various searches but couldn't gind a suitable/applicable answer to the simple problem below: On pgAdminIII (Windows 7 64-bit) I am running the following command using SQL editor: COPY public.Raw20120113 FROM…
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how to convert unicode text to utf8 text readable?

I got a serious problem regarding Unicode and utf8, I saved a paragraph of Arabic/Persian text file into notepad and saved it, now I saw my information like Êæ Çíä ÓæÑÓ ÈÑäÇãå ÚÏÏ ÏáÎæÇåí Ñæ ÇÒ æÑæÏí ãííÑå æ Èå Øæá åãæä ÚÏÏ ãËáËí Ñæ ÑÓã ãí ˜äå my…
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Console C# urdu writing not readable

i want to write on C# console in visual studio but it is not readable, only question mark is printed in space of each Urdu character.
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How to check if file-encoding is correct (corresponding to the country/codepages)?

How can i check a txt-file if it contains only valid characters, corresponding to the country-codepage? because they get transfered to a linux-system, so every character has to be in the codepage through searching over google i couldnt found…
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C++ File character encoding

Ok so I'm trying to read a json formatted text file with accents (French), under W8, using C++ (Visual Studio 2012 Express). This is the file: {"products": [{"id": 125, "label": "Billél"}, {"id": 4, "label": "Rùbin"}]} One line, encoded in…
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Outlook is unable to accept french-accented characters in my mailto string?

Outlook is causing some problems when being passed a mailto string with accented characters in it. Changing the codepage for my entire webpage that has this string on it solves this problem, but that causes other problems in the system, so I would…
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Unicode character not showing properly

I am working on a classic asp application hosted in IIS 6. In one asp page user enters some data and this data is e-mailed using Jmail utility. When the user enters Swedish characters like äöü the mail does not display these characters properly. I…
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Makes sense to use wchar_t/wmain in a windows c++ console application?

I have been writing a new command line application in C++. One platform we support is, of course, Windows. The Windows console, by default, uses the OEM code pages depending on the locale (for example, on my machine it is CP437 / DOS.Western). I…
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Creating tar archive with national characters in Java

Do you know some library/way in Java to generate tar archive with file names in proper windows national codepage ( for example cp1250 ). I tried with Java tar, example code: final TarEntry entry = new TarEntry( files[i] ); String filename =…
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How to get the code page of the current keyboard layout?

My non-Unicode application needs to be able to process Unicode keyboard input (WM_CHAR/etc.), thus receive the 8-bit character code then internally convert it to Unicode. 9x-compatibility is required, so using most Unicode APIs is not an option.…
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Bengali encoding

Does anybody know what encoding is this (in Bengali language): Bs‡iRx eY©gvjvi cO_g eY© ‡fovi WvK, QvM‡ji e?v e?v WvK ‡Nvovi Mvwo; fvov‡U †gvUiMvwo as an example this web site seems to use it: http://www.shipbreakingbd.info It's using it's own font…
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VB.NET How to force Asc to use english codepage on non-english systems

In VB.NET, I want to simulate a way to "force" the ASC function to use the english codepage, even on a system having the "language for non-unicode" different than English. For example: Asc("Œ") On a system having "language for non-unicode" set as…
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ANSI or OEM Codepage when using MME and DirectMusic?

I noticed that when reading MIDI port names from MME, the names are multi-byte strings encoded using the ANSI Codepage, which my app uses by default. When receiving those names from the DirectMusic driver, the names are wide-character strings…
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