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From: daves@dbase.UUCP (Dave Schnepper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: .CPI Files - What are they?
Keywords: .CPI
Message-ID: <353@dbase.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 90 19:52:02 GMT
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Reply-To: daves@dbase.UUCP (Dave Schnepper)
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Organization: Ashton Tate Devlopment Center Glendale, Calif.
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CPI stands for "Code Page Information".  Code-pages are IBM/DOS's way
of supporting languages with glyphs (characters) that were not in
the original definition of the IBM PC's character set.  For instance,
Danish, Norwegian, Arabic, Hebrew, most Eastern European languages, 
Portugese, etc.

The character set documented in your DOS manual is CP (Code Page) 437
(USA standard English).  This is also used by most of Western Europe.
Code Page 850 was developed a couple of years ago and has the 
characters for all of Western Europe.

As a USA/English user you should not have to worry about CPI files or
code page information.  Check your DOS manual under Code Page or 
chcp or NLSFUNC or COUNTRY= if you want more information.

Dave Schnepper
Architect for International Software
Ashton-Tate
Los Gatos
daves@ashtate