IBM code page 37 is an EBCDIC

EBCDIC

Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code is an 8-bit character encoding used mainly on IBM mainframe and IBM midrange computer operating systems....

 code page

Code page

Code page is another term for character encoding. It consists of a table of values that describes the character set for a particular language. The term code page originated from IBM's EBCDIC-based mainframe systems, but many vendors use this term including Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle Corporation...

 with the full Latin-1 character set used in IBM mainframe

Mainframe computer

Mainframes are powerful computers used primarily by corporate and governmental organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and financial transaction processing.The term originally referred to the...

s. It is used in some English and Portuguese speaking countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, and the United States.

CCSID

CCSID

CCSID is an abbreviation used by IBM to mean "Coded Character Set Identifier". It is a 16-bit number that represents a specific encoding of a specific code page...

 1140 is the Euro currency update of code page/CCSID 37. In that code page, the "¤" (currency) character at code point 9F is replaced with the "€" (Euro) character.

Codepage layout

Characters are shown with their Unicode

Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...

 equivalents.

EBCDIC Code Page 00037
	—0	—1	—2	—3	—4	—5	—6	—7	—8	—9	—A	—B	—C	—D	—E	—F
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External links

• ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/CP00037.pdf code page 37 from IBM
• http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/EBCDIC/CP037.TXT code page 037 to unicode mapping including control codes.