Code page 852 is a code page

Code page

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 used under MS-DOS

MS-DOS

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 to write Central Europe

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an languages that use Latin script

Latin alphabet

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 (such as Bosnian

Bosnian language

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, Croatian

Croatian language

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, Czech

Czech language

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, Hungarian

Hungarian language

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, Polish

Polish language

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, Romanian

Romanian language

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, Serbian

Serbian language

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 or Slovak

Slovak language

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).

Note that code page 852 (MS-DOS Latin 2) is very different from ISO/IEC 8859-2

ISO/IEC 8859-2

ISO/IEC 8859-2:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 2: Latin alphabet No. 2, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in 1987. It is informally referred to as "Latin-2". It is generally...

 (ISO Latin-2), although both are informally referred to as "Latin-2" in different language regions.

Some of the box drawing characters

Box drawing characters

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 of the original DOS code page 437

Code page 437

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 were sacrificed in order to put in more accented letters (all printable characters from ISO 8859-2 are included). These changes caused display glitches in MS-DOS applications that made use of the box drawing characters to display a GUI-like surface in text mode (e.g. Norton Commander

Norton Commander

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). Several local encodings were invented to avoid the problem, for example the Kamenický encoding

Kamenický encoding

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 for Czech

Czech language

Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...

 and Slovak

Slovak language

Slovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people...

.

Code page layout

The following table shows code page 852. Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode

Unicode

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 code point and its decimal 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 ASCII

ASCII

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; although code points 1–31 and 127 (00–1F_hex) have a different interpretation in some circumstances – see code page 437.
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