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Windows Code Pages

The lists below provide links to graphical representations, and textual listings, of each of the Windows codepages.

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SBCS (Single Byte Character Set) Codepages

•1250 (Central Europe)
•1251 (Cyrillic)
•1252 (Latin I)
•1253 (Greek)
•1254 (Turkish)
•1255 (Hebrew)
•1256 (Arabic)
•1257 (Baltic)
•1258 (Vietnam)
•874 (Thai)

DBCS (Double Byte Character Set) Codepages

In these graphical representations, leadbytes are indicated by light gray background shading. Each of these leadbytes hyperlinks to a new page showing the 256 character block associated with that leadbyte. Unused leadbytes are identified by a darker gray background.

•932 (Japanese Shift-JIS)
•936 (Simplified Chinese GBK)
•949 (Korean)
•950 (Traditional Chinese Big5)

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In This Article
•Windows Code Pages
•OEM Code Pages
•ISO Code Pages
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