Code page 855

Not to be confused with Code page 866.
OEM-855
MIME / IANAIBM855
Alias(es)cp855, 855[1]
Language(s)Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian (partial)
ClassificationExtended ASCII, OEM code page
Based onCode page 437 / 850
Transforms / EncodesISO-8859-5, ISO-IR-111
Other related encoding(s)IBM-872

Code page 855 (CCSID 855) (also known as CP 855, IBM 00855, OEM 855, MS-DOS Cyrillic[2]) is a code page used under DOS to write Cyrillic script.[3]

Code page 872 (CCSID 872) is the euro currency update of code page/CCSID 855.[4] Byte CF replaces ¤ with € in that code page.[5][6]

It supports the repertoires of ISO-8859-5 and ISO-IR-111 (in a different arrangement), in addition to preserving the semigraphic and box-drawing characters and guillemets from code page 850.

At one time it was widely used in Serbia, Macedonia and Bulgaria, but it never caught on in Russia, where Code page 866 was more common. This code page is not used much.

  1. ^ Character Sets, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), 2018-12-12
  2. ^ "Code Page 855 MS-DOS Cyrillic". Developing International Software. Microsoft. Retrieved 3 Nov 2011.
  3. ^ "CCSID 855 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-27.
  4. ^ "CCSID 872 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-27.
  5. ^ Code Page CPGID 00872 (pdf) (PDF), IBM
  6. ^ Code Page CPGID 00872 (txt), IBM