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psfpages(1)			   PSF Tools			   psfpages(1)

NAME
       psfpages	- list codepages known to the PSF Tools

SYNOPSIS
       psfpages	[codepages]
DESCRIPTION
       If run with no arguments, psfpages lists	the codepages supported	by the
       psftools	utilities.

       If  one or more codepage	names is supplied, psfpages dumps the contents
       of the mapping tables for the named codepages.

       There are currently three sorts of codepage compiled into the psftools:
       ISO 8859	codepages, referred to by encoding name	 (eg  "8859-1");  num-
       bered codepages,	referred to by their number (eg	"CP437"	or just	"437")
       and nonstandard codepages. Currently the	nonstandard codepages are:

       AMSTRAD
	      The  codepage  used by CP/M on the Amstrad PCW, CPC and Spectrum
	      +3.

       BBCMICRO
	      The codepage used	by the BBC  Micro  (covers  characters	32-127
	      only).

       PCGEM  The codepage used	by GEM on the IBM PC.

       PPC437, PPC860, PPC865, PPCGREEK
	      The  codepages  used by the character ROM	on Amstrad PPC laptops
	      and their	desktop	counterpart, the Sinclair PC200. These	differ
	      slightly	from  the standard codepages 437, 860 and 865 to avoid
	      confusion	between	the 'epsilon' and 'element-of' characters.

       from Unicode.org, and partly from the *.uni  files  supplied  with  the
       Linux  kbd-1.12 utilities. In most cases	they have been modified	to re-
       place the control code entries with the glyphs that  are	 actually  ob-
       served  in the fonts. For example, compare unicode.org's	CP437.TXT with
       the output of psfpages for codepage 437.

BUGS
       The AMSTRAD character 7Fh (zero without a slash)	 has  been  mapped  to
       U+FF10  FULLWIDTH DIGIT ZERO, rather than to U+0030 DIGIT ZERO. This is
       not ideal, but it avoids	the information	loss of	mapping	two  different
       character shapes	to the same codepoint.

       The  PCGEM  character 0Ah (bell)	has been mapped	to U+237E BELL SYMBOL,
       but it's	not the	same sort of bell at all; the GEM character is a ding-
       bat, but	the Unicode bell is a symbol for a circuit diagram.

       Six characters in the PCGEM character set (0DAh to 0DFh)	appear not  to
       be  used,  and display as blank in all known PCGEM fonts. Their mapping
       entries reflect this status; they will be ignored when a	Unicode	direc-
       tory is being created, and set to blank when a PSF is written with this
       codepage.

AUTHOR
       John Elliott <seasip.webmaster@gmail.com>.

Version	1.0.8			 21 June, 2008			   psfpages(1)

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