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Internationalizing Applications
Understanding Code Pages : Code pages and character sets : Character sets
 

Character sets

In contrast to a code page, a character set is merely a collection of letters, numbers, punctuation, and control codes in no particular order. The following figure shows the character set of the IBM850 code page.
Figure 3. The character set of the IBM850 code page
The following figure shows the character set of the ISO8859-1 code page.
Figure 4. The character set of the ISO8859-1 code page