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Code page 865

Code page 865 is a code page used under DOS in Denmark and Norway to write Nordic languages.

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Code page 865
MIME / IANAIBM865
Alias(es)cp865, 8651

Code page 865 (CCSID 865)2 (also known as CP 865, IBM 00865, OEM 865, DOS Nordic3) is a code page used under DOS in Denmark and Norway to write Nordic languages4 (except Icelandic, for which code page 861 is used).

Code page 865 differs from code page 437 in three points: 0x9B (ø instead of ¢), 0x9D (Ø instead of ¥) and 0xAF (¤ instead of »). The letter Ø is required for the Danish and Norwegian languages.

In the BBS software MBBS and its descendant BBBS, code page 865 was referred to as IBN (by contrast with IBM, which was used for code page 437).

Character set

The following table shows code page 865. Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point. Only the second half of the table (code points 128–255) is shown, the first half (code points 0–127) being the same as code page 437.

Code page 8655678
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
8x Ç ü é â ä à å ç ê ë è ï î ì Ä Å
9x É æ Æ ô ö ò û ù ÿ Ö Ü ø £ Ø ₧ ƒ
Ax á í ó ú ñ Ñ ª º ¿ ⌐ ¬ ½ ¼ ¡ « ¤
Bx ░ ▒ ▓ │ ┤ ╡ ╢ ╖ ╕ ╣ ║ ╗ ╝ ╜ ╛ ┐
Cx └ ┴ ┬ ├ ─ ┼ ╞ ╟ ╚ ╔ ╩ ╦ ╠ ═ ╬ ╧
Dx ╨ ╤ ╥ ╙ ╘ ╒ ╓ ╫ ╪ ┘ ┌ █ ▄ ▌ ▐ ▀
Ex α ß Γ π Σ σ μ τ Φ Θ Ω δ ∞ φ ε ∩
Fx ≡ ± ≥ ≤ ⌠ ⌡ ÷ ≈ ° ∙ · √ ⁿ ² ■ NBSP
  Differences from code page 437
References

References

  1. Character Sets, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), 2018-12-12
  2. "CCSID 0865 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-26.
  3. "Code Page 865 MS-DOS Nordic". Developing International Software. Microsoft. Retrieved 7 Nov 2011.
  4. "Code page 0865 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-17.
  5. "cp865_DOSNordic to Unicode table" (TXT). The Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 7 Nov 2011.
  6. Code Page CPGID 00865 (pdf) (PDF), IBM
  7. Code Page CPGID 00865 (txt), IBM
  8. International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-865_P100-1995.ucm, 2002-12-03