What are Code Page Conversion Tables?

Used in computer programming, code page conversion tables contain values used for character sets in different languages to enable worldwide use of programs. For example, languages using the Latin alphabet need additional symbols not used in English. Microsoft provides code pages for Windows coding, OEM coding and ISO coding.

Windows Code Pages

A single byte character set is a character set where a single byte represents a graphic character. A double byte character set uses two bytes to represent a graphic character. Single byte code pages provide code values for Central Europe, Cyrillic, Latin I, Greek, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic, Baltic, Vietnam and Thai single byte programming for Windows code. Double byte code pages provide code values for Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean and Traditional Chinese double byte programming coding.

OEM Code Pages

OEM is the character set originally used on IBM PCs. The OEM code pages provide code values for the US, Arabic, Greek, Baltic, Multilingual Latin I, Latin II, Cyrillic, Turkish, Multilingual Latin plus Euro, Hebrew and Russian OEM programming coding. The ANSII and OEM combined code pages provide code values for Thai, Japanese Shift, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Traditional Chinese and Vietnam ANSII and OEM combined programming code.

ISO Code Pages

ISO code is the original code used for worldwide programming. However, languages using the Latin alphabet need additional symbols not covered with ISO code. The ISO code pages provide code values for Latin 1, Latin 2, Latin 3, Latin 9, Baltic, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew and Turkish ISO programming code.