Re: Euro sign now added to CP850 and CP857

From: Berthold Frommann (usagi@zedat.fu-berlin.de)
Date: Sun Nov 29 1998 - 12:34:42 EST


>Hold on to your hats (or something!), IBM has indeed changed code page 850.
>But we have also created a new code page which is 858 (850 with the dotless i,
>0xD5, replaced by euro). The OS/2 platform wants to stick to using 850, but
>some of our middleware products want to have the new code page to help maintain
>data integrity. 857 is still 857 because adding the euro did not replace an
>existing character.
>
>It's a brave new world,
>
>Lisa
>
>
>fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu on 08-14-98 07:11:56 AM
>Please respond to unicode@unicode.org
>To: unicode@unicode.org
>cc:
>Subject: Re: Euro sign now added to CP850 and CP857
>
>
>> According to
>>
>> http://ps.boulder.ibm.com/pbin-usa-ps/getobj.pl?/pdocs-usa/euro.html
>>
>> IBM has changed code pages 850 and 857 to include the euro sign.
>>
>> Therefore I suggest to update in the mapping files
>>
>> ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/PC/CP850.TXT
>> ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/PC/CP857.TXT
>>
>> the lines
>>
>> 0xd5 0x0131 #LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I
>> 0xd5 #UNDEFINED
>>
>> which should both be replaced by
>>
>> 0xd5 0x20AC #EURO SIGN
>>
>> and the equivalent change should be made in CP857.TXT.
>>
>Not necessarily. I believe what it means to say (but doesn't) about CP850
>is that a new code page, CP858, was created by copying CP850 and replacing
>dotless i with the Euro symbol. I don't think IBM has ever changed, or will
>ever change, the definition of a code page.
>
>Similarly for CP857, but I don't know the CP number of its Euro twin.
>
>CP923 is identical to ISO 8859-15. CP924 has the same repertoire as CP923
>but with EBCDIC encoding. Other EBCDIC code page replacements include:
>
>Current New Code Countries
> 37 1140 9F USA, Canada, Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil, Australia, NZ
> 273 1141 9F Austria, Germany
> 277 1142 5A Denmark, Norway
> 278 1143 5A Finland, Sweden
> 280 1144 9F Italy
> 284 1145 9F Spain, Latin America (Spanish)
> 285 1146 9F UK
> 297 1147 9F France
> 500 1148 9F Belgium, Canada, Switzerland
> 871 1149 9F Iceland
>
>("Code" is the hex code point of the Euro symbol).
>
>This according to documentation shipped by IBM with OS/2 Fix Paks. I'm
>sure the info can also be found somewhere in the maze of IBM web pages.
>
>- Frank
>
>
>
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