Code Page is a terminology that predates MS. I certainly first learned of it from IBM documents. 

Shift-JIS is code page 932 or 942 (942 cotains about a half dozen more characters than 932). 

The original US IBM PC used Code Page 437. In Europe it used Code Page 850 which is a Latin 1 Code Page. MS invented Code Page 1252 which was their Latin 1 code page. ISO 8859-1 is just another 
Latin 1 Code Page looked at from that perspective. 

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:51:02 +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:

>Guys, can I ask a question?
>
>What is "code page"? Is it sort of M$'s terminology?
>--
>Tatsuo Ishii




Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:33:18 -0700
"Randall Parker" <randall@nls.net>
Re: Thoughts on multiple simultaneous code page support