Talk:Code page
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I think it makes sense to keep the different code pages for the IBM PC collected. The entry as it is now is a bit confused in terms of "IBM PC code page", "code page as a more general term" and even "8 bit character sets". perhaps the IBM PC code pages should have an entry of their own? -- Egil 13:45 Mar 10, 2003 (UTC)
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[edit] NPOV in Microsoft related text
Someone needs to review the Microsoft related text for NPOV, IMHO. mjb 21:00, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- I agree and attempted a starting point for this. Pjacobi 18:32, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Valiant attempt, though 'ISO insisted' was a bit strong (ISO just writes a standard based on what the USA (ANSI) and other national standards bodies agree). Have rephrased. mfc
- The section that discusses the proliferation of the non-standards-compliant windows code pages seems to me very much from a "camp". I have broken it out into its own "Criticism" section, but I suggest it be reworked from a "from my own experiences" tone into something a little more neutral. csiefken
- To say that the chaos surrounding code pages was part of Microsoft's embrace, extend and extinguish policy shows ignorance in the history of code pages and the code page standardization process. Microsoft was developing 1252 at least by 1984, possibly 1983. The first versions of Windows were released in 1985! To say that Microsoft was conspiring in 1985 to undermine a standard released in 1992 shows just how biased the author of this section is. It is so flagrant that I am leaving it in as it says more about the author than the supposed controversy. Laughingskeptic
[edit] Code page vs. Codepage
Codepage redirects to Character encoding, but Code page gives the page on vendor specific code pages. Am I the only one puzzled about this? Pjacobi 12:24, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Origin of the term Code Page
The entry should reflect that the term refers to which physical page number in the printed IBM PC Technical Reference Manual (see BIOS) the character set was listed on ...
I do not know if IBM PC/AT Technical Reference Manual 1502494 is exactly the right part to reference, but I believe so. -Hobart
[edit] OEM character set
Other pages, (notably FAT), while talking about "OEM character set", redirect to here. But the word "OEM" is missing here. Can somebody please fill the gap?
- any good now? Plugwash 19:59, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
- And what is an OEM string? --Abdull 12:05, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] does anyone know
if there was any CJK support availible for dos and if so how it worked? was it limited to 512 characters onscreen at once? did it use graphics mode? Plugwash 01:21, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- Link: http://www.o3one.org/hwdocs/bios_doc/dosref22.html
- I believe different systems used different solutions. One possibility is using half-width and full-width characters. Half-width would be "normal" characters, whereas full-width characters would take up two cells and consist of a lead byte and a trailing byte. Alternatively, one could simply stick to graphics mode (the solution most commonly used today).
- Sometimes quite innovative solutions were used. For instance, I seem to remember reading about a computer which had dipslay modes for high-resolution, but low color, and vice versa, capable of using two pages. (This was not uncommon at the time; graphics memory was limited.) The computer allowed the use of different modes for the two pages, using one as an overlay for the other. So you could have nice colour graphics, while still having readable kanji. I wish I remembered the model of the thing. Anyone? Shinobu 15:27, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
- Probably this one: FM Towns, or a related system. Shinobu 16:16, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] ISO 8859-1
What is the code page for ISO 8859-1? This encoding is mentioned twice in the article, but the code page for it is not given. 99.137.109.95 (talk) 20:15, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
