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Article #41041Re: .CPI Files - What are they?
From: Dave Schnepper
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 19:52
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 19:52
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CPI stands for "Code Page Information". Code-pages are IBM/DOS's way of supporting languages with glyphs (characters) that were not in the original definition of the IBM PC's character set. For instance, Danish, Norwegian, Arabic, Hebrew, most Eastern European languages, Portugese, etc. The character set documented in your DOS manual is CP (Code Page) 437 (USA standard English). This is also used by most of Western Europe. Code Page 850 was developed a couple of years ago and has the characters for all of Western Europe. As a USA/English user you should not have to worry about CPI files or code page information. Check your DOS manual under Code Page or chcp or NLSFUNC or COUNTRY= if you want more information. Dave Schnepper Architect for International Software Ashton-Tate Los Gatos daves@ashtate
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!hacgate!ashtate!dbase!daves From: daves@dbase.UUCP (Dave Schnepper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: .CPI Files - What are they? Keywords: .CPI Message-ID: <353@dbase.UUCP> Date: 8 Jan 90 19:52:02 GMT References: <2391@sactoh0.UUCP> Reply-To: daves@dbase.UUCP (Dave Schnepper) Distribution: usa Organization: Ashton Tate Devlopment Center Glendale, Calif. Lines: 20