Code Pages
A code page is a translation table that the Windows CE OS uses to enable conversions from ANSI to Unicode. By default, the Windows CE OS enables code page support based on the locales that are built into the OS image. Each installed locale has exactly one ANSI-supported code page and one OEM–supported code page. When Windows CE changes a locale, it also changes the default ANSI and OEM code pages to match the new locale. Windows CE associates code pages with a given locale based on the code pages that are available in your system. In some circumstances, the default set of code pages may not provide all of the required support. You can add additional code pages to a platform for additional support, but you cannot download code pages to a target device.
The following table shows the code pages supported by Windows CE .NET.
| Code page | ANSI, OEM or other standards | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 437 | OEM | Microsoft® MS-DOS® United States |
| 708 | OEM | Arabic (ASMO 708) |
| 709 | OEM | Arabic (ASMO 449+, BCON V4) |
| 710 | OEM | Arabic (Transparent Arabic) |
| 720 | OEM | Arabic (Transparent ASMO) |
| 737 | OEM | Greek (OEM 437G) |
| 775 | OEM | Baltic |
| 850 | OEM | MS-DOS Multilingual (Latin I) |
| 852 | OEM | MS-DOS (Latin II) |
| 855 | OEM | IBM Cyrillic (primarily Russian) |
| 857 | OEM | IBM Turkish |
| 858 | OEM | MS-DOS Multilingual (Latin I + Euro) |
| 860 | OEM | MS-DOS Portuguese |
| 861 | OEM | MS-DOS Icelandic |
| 862 | OEM | Hebrew |
| 863 | OEM | MS-DOS Canadian-French |
| 864 | OEM | Arabic |
| 865 | OEM | MS-DOS Nordic |
| 866 | OEM | MS-DOS Russian |
| 869 | OEM | MS-DOS Modern Greek |
| 874 | ANSI & OEM | Thai |
| 932 | ANSI & OEM | Japanese Shift-JIS |
| 936 | ANSI & OEM | ANSI & OEM Chinese: PRC; Macau SAR, PRC; Singapore (Simplified GBK) |
| 949 | ANSI & OEM | Korean |
| 950 | ANSI & OEM | ANSI & OEM Chinese: Taiwan; Hong Kong SAR, PRC (Traditional Big5) |
| 1200 | ANSI | Unicode (BMP of ISO 10646) |
| 1250 | ANSI | Microsoft® Windows® 3.1 Central European |
| 1251 | ANSI | Windows 3.1 Cyrillic |
| 1252 | ANSI | Windows 3.1 US |
| 1253 | ANSI | Windows 3.1 Greek |
| 1254 | ANSI | Windows 3.1 Turkish |
| 1255 | ANSI | Hebrew |
| 1256 | ANSI | Arabic |
| 1257 | ANSI | Baltic |
| 1258 | ANSI & OEM | Vietnamese |
| 1361 | ANSI & OEM | Korean (Johab) |
| 20000 | OTHER | CNS - Taiwan |
| 20001 | OTHER | TCA - Taiwan |
| 20002 | OTHER | E-Ten - Taiwan |
| 20003 | OTHER | IBM5550 - Taiwan |
| 20004 | OTHER | TeleText - Taiwan |
| 20005 | OTHER | Wang - Taiwan |
| 20127 | OTHER | US ASCII |
| 20261 | OTHER | T.61 |
| 20269 | ISO | ISO-6937 |
| 20866 | OTHER | Ukrainian - KOI8-U |
| 21027 | OTHER | Ext Alpha Lowercase |
| 21866 | OTHER | Ukranian - KOI8 |
| 28591 | ISO | ISO 8859-1 Latin I |
| 28592 | ISO | ISO 8859-2 Eastern Europe |
| 28593 | ISO | ISO 8859-3 Turkish |
| 28594 | ISO | ISO 8859-4 Baltic |
| 28595 | ISO | ISO 8859-5 Cyrillic |
| 28596 | ISO | ISO 8859-6 Arabic |
| 28597 | ISO | ISO 8859-7 Greek |
| 28598 | ISO | ISO 8859-8 Hebrew |
| 28599 | ISO | ISO 8859-9 Latin Alphabet No.5 |
| 29001 | OTHER | Europa 3 |
See Also
Enabling an Additional Code Page on a Platform
Last updated on Friday, April 09, 2004
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