[Language]CodePage

Defines the codepage to be used when printing database records.

Definition: Code page: An ordered set of characters of a given script in which a numeric index (code-point value) is associated with each character. This term is generally used in the context of code pages defined by Windows and can also be called a "character set" or "charset".

In the newer components of our SCADA software, more particularly the Process Analyst, the displayed texts are managed by using the Unicode standard of specifying characters.

Within the Microsoft OS, conversion facilities are routinely used between coding standards to access Microsoft’s own legacy components. Part of the reason is a need for backwards compatibility for older files or programs.

Background Information

Code pages are a carryover from pre-Unicode days, (Pre 2000) but they are still deeply embedded in many current softwares including our SCADA.

Code Pages 1250 through 1258 are commonly called the ANSI code pages.

The ANSI name is actually a misnomer they are actually Windows code pages. They are the Microsoft implementation of an early ANSI specification. They benefit from providing consistent mapping of identical characters between their languages.

The non proprietary code pages (real ANSI) became ISO 8859-1 through 16.

The frequently mentioned OEM code page usually refers to the Windows OEM Code page CP437 originating from DOS-7 days. It is still used internally in the Windows Operating System, eg..the Win32 Console; a legacy design that primarily supports US English.

The Chinese, Korean and Japanese double byte code pages are also regarded to be Microsoft OEM.

The single byte Vietnamese CP1258 and Thai CP874 code pages are spoken of as being ANSI as well as OEM.

Allowable Values:

SBCS (Single Byte Character Set) Codepages

• 1250 Windows Latin II (Central Europe)

• 1251 Windows (Cyrillic)

• 1252 Windows Latin I (ANSI, Western European)

• 1253 Windows (Greek)

• 1254 Windows Latin V (Turkish)

• 1255 Windows (Hebrew)

• 1256 Windows (Arabic)

• 1257 Windows (Baltic)

• 1258 Windows (Vietnam)

• 874 Windows (Thai)

DBCS (Double Byte Character Set) Codepages

• 932 (Japanese Shift-JIS)

• 936 (Simplified Chinese GBK)

• 949 (Korean)

• 950 (Traditional Chinese Big5)

Default Value:

The default language CodePage setting is 1252 Latin I.

1252 Latin I (Western European) is also known, correctly as Windows 1252, commonly called ANSI.

It can render US/UK English, French, Danish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and several others eg. Basque, Galician, Catalan, Malay.

See Also

Language Parameters