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Unfortunately, 256 code points was not enough even to support the whole of Europe – not even Latin based languages such as Turkish, Hungarian, etc. To support Greek characters you might see the code points re-mapped as shown on the slide (left hand side). These alternative code pages forced you to maintain contextual information so that you could determine the intended character from the upper ranges of the code page. It also made localization difficult since you had to keep changing code pages.


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