Thanks Juliusz!
This information is the same as the notes that I had, which were
a markup of a 437 code page. The plchars.html is also very nice.
Best regards,
Tex
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
>
> Tex Texin, encoding archaeologist:
>
> >>Does anyone have a chart of the Mazovian code page, that they
> >>can e-mail me or fax me?
>
> Michael Everson:
>
> > Is this a joke? Mazovia is a province of medieval Poland.
>
> Masovia (in Latin) or Mazowsze (in Polish) is a region of central
> Poland (the region of Warsaw). The region already existed in the
> Middle Ages, and actually was a duchy before Poland ever became a
> kingdom.
>
> Mazovia (note the hybrid spelling) is an encoding that was used on
> machines running MS-DOS before MS noticed Eastern Europe. As far as I
> am aware, it is identical to CP-437 (the original IBM-PC encoding),
> except for 18 codepoints, which have been changed to point at Polish
> characters. I have sent Tex a chart of these 18 codepoints, which you
> may find on:
>
> http://www.agh.edu.pl/ogonki/plchars.html
>
> Beware that the also exist non-standard versions of the Mazovia
> non-standard. Please avoid using Mazovia if at all possible.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> J.
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