Code page 850 Code page 850 is a code page that was used in western Europe , under systems such as DOS . It was also sometimes used on English DOS systems although CP437 was generally the default on those . It was largely replaced first with windows-1252 ( often mislabeled as ISO-8859-1 ) and later by UCS-2 and finally UTF-16 ( while the NT line was natively unicode from the start issues of development tool support and compatibility with windows 9x kept most applications on the 8 bit code pages ) . According to Microsoft , it is obsolete and unsupported . CP850 differs from CP437 in that many of the box drawing characters , Greek letters , and various symbols were replaced with additional Latin letters with diacritics , thus greatly improving support for Western European languages ( all characters from ISO 8859-1 are included ) . At the same time , the changes frequently caused display glitches in programs that actually made use of the box drawing characters to display a GUI-like surface in text mode , such as the ubiquitous Turbo Pascal . A modification of CP850 is CP858 , differing only in the character at position D5 HEX : a dotless-i ( ı ) in CP850 , which is replaced with a euro sign ( € ) in CP858 . Code page layout Note : Italicized numbers denote the decimal equivalent . . 0 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 9 . A . B . C . D . E . F   0 .     1 .     2 .     3 .     4 .     5 .     6 .     7 .     8 .     9 .     A .     B .     C .     D .     E .     F .   The C0 control range ( 0x00–0x1F hex ) is mapped to graphics characters . The codes can assume their original function as controls ( as they still do—typing `` echo '' , space , control-G and then Enter causes the PC speaker to emit a beep—even on the command prompt on Windows XP ) , but in display , for example in a screen editor like MS-DOS edit , they show as graphics . The graphics are various , such as smiling faces , card suits and musical notes . Code 0x7F , DEL , similarly shows as a graphic ( a house ) . See also Western Latin character sets ( computing ) Categories : DOS code pages In other languages : Français | Deutsch | Polski 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F 