Code Page

[R.Suresh]

Dear all,

What is the word "Code Page" mean?

I am using HP-UX 11 64 bit,

US-English version.

Thanks
R.Suresh.

[Pete Conneely]

The ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) character set
defines a mapping of the letters, numerals, and specified punctuation and
control characters to the numbers from zero to 127. The term "code page" is used
to refer to extensions of the ASCII character set that also map specified
symbols to the numbers from 128 through 255.

see the man page of 'iconv' for code set conversion.

is this enough?