Information about Code Page 852

Code page 852 (CP 852, IBM 852, OEM 852) is a code page to be used under MS-DOS with Central European languages that use Latin script (such as Polish, Romanian, Czech or Slovak).

Some of the box drawing characters were sacrificed in order to put in more accented letters (all printable characters from ISO 8859-2 are included). This had created disturbing visual effects in non-localized MS-DOS applications using these characters (e.g. Norton Commander). Several local encodings had been invented that avoid the problem, for example "encoding of Kamenický brothers" for Czech and Slovak.

Code page layout

Only the upper half (128–255) of the table is shown, the lower half (0–127) being plain ASCII.

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Ç
C7
ü
FC
é
E9
â
E2
ä
E4
ů
16F
ć
107
ç
E7
ł
142
ë
EB
Ő
150
ő
151
î
EE
Ź
179
Ä
C4
Ć
106
 
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É
C9
Ĺ
139
ĺ
13A
ô
F4
ö
F6
Ľ
13D
ľ
13E
Ś
15A
ś
15B
Ö
D6
Ü
DC
Ť
164
ť
165
Ł
141
×
D7
č
10D
 
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á
E1
í
ED
ó
F3
ú
FA
Ą
104
ą
105
Ž
17D
ž
17E
Ę
118
ę
119
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AC
ź
17A
Č
10C
ş
15F
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2592

2593

2502

2524
Á
C1
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C2
Ě
11A
Ş
15E

2563

2551

2557

255D
Ż
17B
ż
17C

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252C

251C

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253C
Ă
102
ă
103

255A

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Ď
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2584
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162
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D3
ß
DF
Ô
D4
Ń
143
ń
144
ň
148
Š
160
š
161
Ŕ
154
Ú
DA
ŕ
155
Ű
170
ý
FD
Ý
DD
ţ
163
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B4
 
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2DB
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B0
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A8
˙
2D9
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171
Ř
158
ř
159

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Code page is the traditional IBM term used for a specific character encoding table: a mapping in which a sequence of bits, usually a single octet representing integer values 0 through 255, is associated with a specific character.
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MS-DOS (short for Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an operating system commercialized by Microsoft. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems and was the dominant operating system for the PC compatible
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Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. In addition, Northern, Southern and Southeastern Europe may variously delimit or overlap into Central Europe.
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Latin alphabet
Child systems Numerous: see Alphabets derived from the Latin
Sister systems Cyrillic
Coptic
Armenian
Runic/Futhark
Unicode range See Latin characters in Unicode
ISO 15924 Latn

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Polish}}} 
Writing system: Latin (Polish variant) 
Official status
Official language of:  European Union
 European Union
Regulated by: Polish Language Council
Language codes
ISO 639-1: pl
ISO 639-2: pol
ISO 639-3:
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Romanian}}} 
Official status
Official language of:  Moldova [2]
 Romania
 Vojvodina (Serbia)

 European Union
Regulated by: Academia Română
Language codes
ISO 639-1: ro
ISO 639-2: rum (B)
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Czech}}} 
Official status
Official language of:  Czech Republic
 European Union
Regulated by: Czech Language Institute
Language codes
ISO 639-1: cs
ISO 639-2: cze (B)  ces (T)
ISO 639-3: ces
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Slovak}}} 
Official status
Official language of:  European Union
 European Union
Vojvodina (Serbia)
Regulated by: Slovak Academy of Sciences (The Ľudovít Štúr Linguistic Institute)
Language codes
ISO 639-1: sk
ISO 639-2:
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Box drawing characters, also known as line drawing characters, or pseudographics, are widely used in text user interfaces to draw various frames and boxes.
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ISO 8859-2, more formally cited as ISO/IEC 8859-2 or less formally as Latin-2, is part 2 of ISO/IEC 8859, a standard character encoding defined by ISO. It encodes what it refers to as Latin alphabet no.
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Norton Commander (commonly shortened to "NC") is an Orthodox File Manager (OFM) program, written by John Socha and released by Peter Norton Computing (later acquired by the Symantec corporation). NC is a file manager which essentially acts as the text user interface for DOS.
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The Kamenický encoding, named for the Kamenický brothers, was a very popular code page for personal computers running MS-DOS, used in the former Czechoslovakia (today Czech Republic and Slovakia).
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Czech}}} 
Official status
Official language of:  Czech Republic
 European Union
Regulated by: Czech Language Institute
Language codes
ISO 639-1: cs
ISO 639-2: cze (B)  ces (T)
ISO 639-3: ces
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American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), generally pronounced ask-ee IPA: /ˈæski/ ( [1] ), is a character encoding based on the English alphabet.
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