What is this "IBM437"

[grs]

This is from a code example in visual studio beta, what is the IBM437 ?

thanks
grs

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="IBM437"?>
<book xmlns:bk="urn:samples" bk:ISBN="1-861001-57-5" bk:genre="novel">
<title>Pride And Prejudice</title>
</book>Press any key to continue . . .

[Martin Honnen]

grs wrote:

This is from a code example in visual studio beta, what is the IBM437 ? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="IBM437"?>

Probably that encoding listed here:
<http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/oem/437.mspx>

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[Kevin Yu [MSFT]]

Hi grs,

Like Martin mentioned, it's an ASCII extension.

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[Joerg Jooss]

grs wrote:

This is from a code example in visual studio beta, what is the IBM437
?

thanks
grs

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="IBM437"?>
<book xmlns:bk="urn:samples" bk:ISBN="1-861001-57-5" bk:genre="novel">
<title>Pride And Prejudice</title>
</book>Press any key to continue . . .

That's an IBM code page, used for exmaple in MS-DOS and OS/2. See also
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1345.html

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