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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 ps-
     ftools 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"); numbered  code-
     pages,  referred to by their number (eg "CP437" or just "437") and nonstan-
     dard codepages. Currently the nonstandard codepages are:

     AMSTRADThe 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 be-
	    tween 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 replace the
     control code entries with the glyphs that	are  actually  observed  in  the
     fonts. For example, compare unicode.org's CP437.TXT with the output of psf-
     pages 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 dingbat, 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 directory 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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