Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Internationalizing Applications

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. Figure 2–3 shows the character set of the IBM850 code page.

Figure 2–3: The character set of the IBM850 code page

Figure 2–4 shows the character set of the ISO8859-1 code page.

Figure 2–4: The character set of the ISO8859-1 code page