On This Page Overview and Description A codepage is a list of
selected character codes characters represented as code points)
in a certain order. Codepages are usually defined to support
specific languages or groups of languages that share common
writing systems. All Window codepages can only contain 256 code
points. Most of the first 127 code pointsrepresent the same
characters. This is to allow for continuity and legacy code. It
is the upper 128 code points 128-255 (0-based) where codepages
differ considerably. For example, codepage 1253 provides
character codes required in the Greek writing system and
codepage 1250 provides the characters for Latin writing systems
including English, German and French. It is the upper 128 code
points that contain either the accent characters or the Greek
characters. Thus you cannot store Greek and German in the same
code stream unless you put some type of identifier to indicate
what codepage you are referencing. This becomes even more
complex when dealing with Asian charact