IBM code page 500 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 full Latin-1-charset 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.

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...

 1148 is the Euro currency update of code page/CCSID 500. Byte 9F is replaced ¤ with € in that code page.

Codepage layout

Characters 00–3F and FF are control

Control character

In computing and telecommunication, a control character or non-printing character is a code point in a character set, that does not in itself represent a written symbol.It is in-band signaling in the context of character encoding....

s, 40 is space, 41 is no-break space, and CA is soft hyphen

Soft hyphen

In computing and typesetting, a soft hyphen is a type of hyphen used to specify a place in text where a hyphenated break is allowed without forcing a line break in an inconvenient place if the text is re-flowed....

. Characters are shown with their equivalent 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...

 codes. Invariant alphanumeric, punctuation, and control characters are shown in color.

	—0	—1	—2	—3	—4	—5	—6	—7	—8	—9	—A	—B	—C	—D	—E	—F
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	—0	—1	—2	—3	—4	—5	—6	—7	—8	—9	—A	—B	—C	—D	—E	—F

External links

• [ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/CP00500.pdf Code page 500]
• Microsoft's interpretation of code page 500 to Unicode mapping including control codes