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The original 1987 version of the standard had the same character assignments as the Greek national standard ELOT 928, published in 1986. The table in this article shows the updated 2003 version which adds three characters (0xA4: euro sign U+20AC, 0xA5: drachma sign U+20AF, 0xAA: Greek ypogegrammeni U+037A).
Windows code page 1253 ("Greek - ANSI"), [1] commonly known by its IANA-registered name Windows-1253 [2] or abbreviated as cp1253, [3] [4] is a Microsoft Windows code page used to write modern Greek. It is not capable of supporting the older polytonic Greek .
Several 8-bit character sets (encodings) were designed for binary representation of common Western European languages (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Dutch, English, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic), which use the Latin alphabet, a few additional letters and ones with precomposed diacritics, some punctuation, and various symbols (including some Greek letters).
Code page 869 (CCSID 869) (CP 869, IBM 869, OEM 869) is a code page used under DOS to write Greek [2] and may also be used to get Greek letters for other uses such as math. [citation needed] It is also called DOS Greek 2. [3] It was designed to include all characters from ISO 8859-7. Code page 869 was not as popular as code page 737. [citation ...
Code page 737 (CCSID 737) [1] (also known as CP 737, IBM 00737, and OEM 737, [2] MS-DOS Greek [3]) is a code page used under DOS to write the Greek language. [4] It was much more popular than code page 869 although it lacks the letters ΐ and ΰ.
In 1990, the first version of Unicode used the code points of ISO-8859-1 as the first 256 Unicode code points. In 1992, the IANA registered the character map ISO_8859-1:1987, more commonly known by its preferred MIME name of ISO-8859-1 (note the extra hyphen over ISO 8859-1), a superset of ISO 8859-1, for use on the Internet.
A character set is a collection of elements used to represent text. [9] [10] For example, the Latin alphabet and Greek alphabet are both character sets. A coded character set is a character set mapped to a set of unique numbers. [10] For historical reasons, this is also often referred to as a code page. [9]
special characters that are not available in the limited character set are stored in the form of a multi-character code; there are usually two or three equivalent representations, e.g. for the character € the named character reference € and the decimal character reference € and the hexadecimal character reference €. The edit ...