Code Page

Code page is the traditional IBM term used for a specific character encoding table: a mapping in which a sequence of bits, usually a single octet representing integer values 0 through 255, is associated with a specific character. IBM and Microsoft often allocate a code page number to a character set even if that charset is better known by another name.

While the term code page originated from IBM's EBCDIC-based mainframe systems, the term is most commonly associated with the IBM PC code pages. Microsoft, a maker of PC operating systems, refers to these code pages as OEM code pages, and supplements them with its own "ANSI" code pages.

In DocFamily, Code Pages are used in the area of AFP Printing.