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Windows code pages

A code page maps the numbers 0 through 255 to a character.
In cmd.exe (or another conhost.exe based application), text is written or read using the currently specified code page.
The current code page can be displayed or changed with chcp and mode con: cp.
There are two groups of Windows code pages:
The code page for UTF-8 is 65001.

See also

A list of code pages can be displayed with the .NET method System.Text.Encoding.GetEncodings().
A specific encoding is returned by System.Text.Encoding::GetEncoding().
byte-2-char.c is a simple C program that converts the bytes between 128 and 255 to selected code pages and the write an HTML table.
The C_codepage.NLS files under %SYSTEMROOT%\System32
The original IBM PC's codepage was 437.
Registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Codepage
the -encoding parameter of the PowerShell cmdlet out-file.
character encoding

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