Questions tagged [cp864]

DOS Code page 864 (ibm-864) used for arabic text.

DOS code page 864 (extended ASCII) was used for arabic texts. Currently may be encountered in the legacy applications and in printer context (especially specialized devices as POS-printers, using one-byte encodings).

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UTF-8 to CP864 (arabic) conversion

I have the following task: some text in mixed latin/arabic written in UTF-8 needs to be converted for printing using POS-printer, which uses ancient one-byte code page 864. text.getBytes("ibm-864") suddenly shows many question marks instead of…

asked Mar 11 '15 at 09:20

dmitry

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