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what is your codepage?

Posted: 2014 Nov 06, 17:21
by nikos
my character codepage (greek) is 1253. I think most western europe and USA use 1252? If you are in the UK, Germany, France or USA and you can tell me your codepage I'd use it for some warning messages. If you don't know what a codepage is never mind :)

Re: what is your codepage?

Posted: 2014 Nov 06, 20:25
by fgagnon

Re: what is your codepage?

Posted: 2014 Nov 06, 20:53
by Robert2
What’s wrong with Unicode UTF-8?

Re: what is your codepage?

Posted: 2014 Nov 07, 08:00
by nikos
I was trying to find the actual codepages on your computers, not the theoretical... but anyway it looks like the answer i'm looking for is
IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252

Re: what is your codepage?

Posted: 2014 Nov 07, 15:56
by FrizzleFry
How do you find out what code page your are using?

Re: what is your codepage?

Posted: 2014 Nov 07, 17:54
by nikos
one way is to open a DOS console and type the command chcp

Re: what is your codepage?

Posted: 2014 Nov 07, 19:06
by FrizzleFry
I'm using 437... Windows 8.1 x64... US...

Re: what is your codepage?

Posted: 2014 Nov 07, 19:50
by vserghi
Windows XP, UK, chcp=850

Re: what is your codepage?

Posted: 2014 Nov 08, 07:12
by dunno
Win7 Ult; US keyboard; chcp 850

Re: what is your codepage?

Posted: 2014 Nov 08, 07:53
by RightPaddock
ditto dunno

RP

Re: what is your codepage?

Posted: 2014 Nov 08, 08:03
by nikos
ok thanks, theory confirmed!