Talk:Code page 1057

Latest comment: 4 years ago by HarJIT in topic Why does this redirect to Symbol?

Why does this redirect to Symbol? edit

IBM's code chart for CP01057 is basically the same as CP437 (for comparison), except with ▒ rather than ⌂ as the 0x7F graphic (sure, that means it's encoded both as a control replacement and as a regular character, but that's no different to ¶ in CP850). In whichever case, it isn't Symbol.

Compare IBM's code chart for CP01038 which is Symbol (which Code page 1038 correctly redirects to).

--HarJIT (talk) 11:18, 30 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

Closer cross-comparison of the charts shows, compared to CP437:

  • ŋ η in place of ⁿ (probably the biggest one)
  • ˜ in place of ~ (as differentiated by the same two codes in e.g. the chart for CP1252).
  • ˆ in place of ^ (ditto)
  • β in place of ß
  • ˚ (SD270000, defined e.g. here as Overcircle Accent) in place of ° (SM190000 Degree Symbol)

Most of the changes (except the ˜) appear to be shared with the next code page CP1038, which appears to have also made some more significant changes.

-- HarJIT (talk) 11:40, 30 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

Okay, I've created a stub over the former redirect, for the time being. --HarJIT (talk) 13:33, 30 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

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Further detail about difference from 437 which I'm just noting here for future reference:

The GCGID given for the ASCII vertical bar is different, although (unlike the other minor changes) I'm not sure if this corresponds to a different Unicode code point: it's given as SF660000, i.e. the same as [1] 0x85 in Code page 310, although it probably isn't supposed to be mapped to U+2502 (since that's at 0xB3 (SF110000) in both this one and 437)). --HarJIT (talk) 20:52, 30 October 2019 (UTC)Reply