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08/2005

1.5 Terms

Code page
A list of characters which forms the character set for one or more languages. A
code which is unique within this code page is assigned to each of the characters in
the list.
All of the code pages used under Windows share the ASCII range (codes 0 to
127).
A distinction is made between single-byte code pages and multiple-byte code
pages.
In single-byte code pages (all European languages), each character is represented
with a single byte. Accordingly, single-byte code pages comprise a maximum of
256 characters.
Multiple-byte code pages (Asian languages) contain both characters which can be
stored as a single byte as well as characters which are stored with two (or more)
bytes. The shared ASCII range is contained as a range of single-byte characters.
There is a 1:1 assignment between Windows code page and language family.
Section 1.3 (Language family) contains a list of the language families in Table 1-1.
Diacritical characters
(diacritical = distinguishing)
In most cases, a relatively small supplementary character, which is attached to a
letter to give the letter a specific stress, a specific pronunciation or even a new
meaning.
Section 3.1 (Special characters in different language families) contains a list of
diacritical characters.
If the combination of basic letters and diacritical characters belongs in a language-
specific alphabet, this combination is contained in the appropriate Windows
character sets (code page, Unicode) as a separate character.
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