[Lazarus] ASCII - IBM's (old) extended character set

David W Noon david.w.noon at ntlworld.com
Wed Nov 4 21:45:13 CET 2009


On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:48:47 +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote about
[Lazarus] ASCII - IBM's (old) extended character set:

[snip]
> As you can see from the url, the characters below Char(32) is very
> different to standard ASCII table or the ASCII table with CodePage
> 437.

In the days before wide National Language Support, IBM and M$ shipped
PC-DOS and MS-DOS, respectively, with two code pages: 437 and 850.
These pre-dated the ISO standard for these character sets.  However,
iconv (and many other conversion utilities) still supports them as code
pages IBM437 and IBM850, as distinct from CP437 and CP850.
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Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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