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CP850 differs from CP437 in that many of the Box Drawing Characters , Greek Letters , and various symbols were replaced with additional Latin letters with diacritics, thus greatly improving support for Western European languages (all characters from ISO 8859-1 are included).

A modification of CP850 is sign (€) in CP858.


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  • The C0 control range (0x00–0x1F Hex ) is mapped to graphics characters. The codes can assume their original function as controls (as they still do—typing "echo", space, control-G and then Enter causes the PC speaker to emit a beep—even on the command prompt on Windows XP ), but in display, for example in a screen editor like MS-DOS edit, they show as graphics. The graphics are various, such as smiling faces, Card Suits and musical notes. Code 0x7F, DEL, similarly shows as a graphic (a house).



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