Code page 864

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title: "Code page 864" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["dos-code-pages"] description: "Code page used to write Arabic" topic_path: "general/dos-code-pages" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_864" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Code page used to write Arabic ::

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Field	Value
name	Code page 864
mime	IBM864
alias	cp864
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|name = Code page 864 |mime = IBM864 |alias = cp864 Code page 864 (CCSID 864) (also known as CP 864, IBM 00864) is a code page used to write Arabic in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.

CCSID 17248 is the euro currency update of code page/CCSID 864. The euro sign was assigned to the previously undefined code point A7hex in 1999.

Character set

The following table shows code page 864. Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point.

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Code page 165

Code page 165 adds characters in the five empty spots in the original code page 864. This code page is used by ADOS.

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References

References

1. (2018-12-12). "Character Sets". [[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority]] (IANA).
2. "CCSID 864 information document".
3. "Code page 864 information document".
4. (1998). "CCSID 17248 information document". [[IBM Corporation]].
5. "Code Page CPGID 00864 (pdf)". IBM.
6. "Code Page CPGID 00864 (txt)". IBM.
7. (2002-12-03). "International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-864_X110-1999.ucm".
8. "cp864_DOSArabic to Unicode table". The Unicode Consortium.

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