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Microsoft's Shift JIS variant is known simply as "Code page 932" on Microsoft Windows, however this is ambiguous as IBM's code page 932, while also a Shift JIS variant, lacks the NEC and NEC-selected double-byte vendor extensions which are present in Microsoft's variant (although both include the IBM extensions) and preserves the 1978 ordering of JIS X 0208.
The UK Extended layout is almost entirely transparent to users familiar with the UK layout. A machine with the extended layout behaves exactly as with the standard UK, except for the rarely used grave accent key. This makes this layout suitable for a machine for shared or public use by a user population in which some use the extended functions.
Windows code pages are sets of characters or code pages (known as character encodings in other operating systems) used in Microsoft Windows from the 1980s and 1990s. Windows code pages were gradually superseded when Unicode was implemented in Windows, [citation needed] although they are still supported both within Windows and other platforms, and still apply when Alt code shortcuts are used.
Typeface Family Spacing Weights/Styles Target script Included from Can be installed on Example image Aharoni [6]: Sans Serif: Proportional: Bold: Hebrew: XP, Vista
Cancelled upgrade for Windows 95; sometimes referred to in the press as Windows 96. Codename was reused for Internet Explorer 4.0 and Windows Desktop Update which incorporated many of the technologies planned for Nashville. [10] [11] Memphis: Windows 97 Windows 98 — [12] [13] Millennium — Windows Me
Even though Windows-1252 was the first and by far most popular code page named so in Microsoft Windows parlance, the code page has never been an ANSI standard. Microsoft explains, "The term ANSI as used to signify Windows code pages is a historical reference, but is nowadays a misnomer that continues to persist in the Windows community." [10]
If no hardware code page(s) are specified, these drivers default either to a dummy code page number 999 [1] [23] [24] or assume the hardware code page to be equal to the primary code page (the first code page listed in COUNTRY.SYS files for a particular country [27] with the country code either specified in the CONFIG.SYS COUNTRY directive or ...
Since late 2006, Neo has been included in Linux as a variant of the German keyboard layout for the X Window System X.org in all current distributions. Drivers are downloadable on the project page for common platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac OS, BSD and Solaris. In addition, free learning software is available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS.