MS-DOS encodings

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Revision as of 02:38, 21 May 2019

File Format
Name MS-DOS encodings
Ontology
PRONOM x-fmt/130, x-fmt/15

MS-DOS (and PC-DOS, and the IBM PC ROMs) used a family of 8-bit extensions of ASCII. All code positions 0X20-0XFF are used to represent printable characters. MS-DOS Latin US is still the default encoding built into many PC ROMs. These encodings are sometimes called the "OEM" encodings.

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