What is IBM 850?

What is IBM 850?

The IBM 8408 is a Power System E850 server that offers new levels of performance, price/ performance, and function with POWER8 technology for clients using a 4-socket server. The Power E850 server uses high-performance, enterprise-class 1600 MHz DDR3 memory packaged as CDIMMs with L4 cache.

Which is an IBM character code?

Code page 437 (CCSID 437) is the character set of the original IBM PC (personal computer). It is also known as CP437, OEM-US, OEM 437, PC-8, or DOS Latin US.

What is CP850 encoding?

Code Page 850 (CP850, DOS 850, DOS CP850, DOS Latin-1) is an 8-bit character encoding. It is a member of the family of MS-DOS encodings intended for use in western Europe. This encoding has the characters of ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1), though in different code positions from that encoding.

What is Western European DOS?

Code page 850 (CCSID 850) (also known as CP 850, IBM 00850, OEM 850, DOS Latin 1) is a code page used under DOS and Psion’s EPOC16 operating systems in Western Europe. Systems largely replaced code page 850 with Windows-1252 which contains all same letters, and later with Unicode.

What is Active code page?

Windows code pages are also sometimes referred to as “active code pages” or “system active code pages”. A Windows operating system always has one currently active Windows code page. All ANSI versions of API functions use the currently active code page. The usual OEM code page for English is code page 437.

What character is 3F?

ASCII and EBCDIC character sets

What is the difference between cp1252 and UTF-8?

In Windows-1252, all characters are encoded using a single byte and therefore the encoding only contains 256 characters altogether. In UTF-8 however, those two characters are ones that are encoded using 2 bytes each.