CWI-2

CWI-2^[1] (a.k.a. CWI, cp-hu,^[1][2] HUCWI, or HU8CWI2^[3]) is a Hungarian code page frequently used in the 1980s and early 1990s. If this code page is erroneously interpreted as code page 437, it will still be fairly readable (e.g. Á in place of Å).

Character set

The following table shows "CWI-2". Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point. Only the second half is shown, codes less than 128 are identical to code page 437.

CWI-2

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

8x

Ç

ü

é

â

ä

à

å

ç

ê

ë

è

ï

î

Í

Ä

Á

9x

É

æ

Æ

ő

ö

Ó

ű

Ú

Ű

Ö

Ü

¢

£

¥

₧

ƒ

Ax

á

í

ó

ú

ñ

Ñ

ª

Ő

¿

⌐

¬

½

¼

¡

«

»

Bx

░

▒

▓

│

┤

╡

╢

╖

╕

╣

║

╗

╝

╜

╛

┐

Cx

└

┴

┬

├

─

┼

╞

╟

╚

╔

╩

╦

╠

═

╬

╧

Dx

╨

╤

╥

╙

╘

╒

╓

╫

╪

┘

┌

█

▄

▌

▐

▀

Ex

α

ß

Γ

π

Σ

σ

µ

τ

Φ

Θ

Ω

δ

∞

φ

ε

∩

Fx

≡

±

≥

≤

⌠

⌡

÷

≈

°

∙

·

√

ⁿ

²

■

NBSP

  Differences from code page 437

The Unicode encoding used by recode appears to differ in a number of code points:^[2]

9F | U+E01F | HUNGARIAN FLORIN (CWI_9F)
E1 | U+03B2 | GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA
E6 | U+03BC | GREEK SMALL LETTER MU
ED | U+2205 | EMPTY SET
F8 | U+2218 | RING OPERATOR
F9 | U+00B7 | MIDDLE DOT
FA | U+2022 | BULLET

Several applications developed in Hungary use almost identical character sets with slight modifications, which include § (U+00A7, SECTION SIGN) at 0x9D and a forint sign (an upper-case F and lower-case t ligated into a single character) at 0x9E or 0xA8. The florin sign was planned to be disunified, but so many encodings have this, it would disrupt many mappings.^[4] The forint is usually abbreviated as "Ft"; most Hungarians recognize a lower-case "f" (whether upright or cursive) as meaning fillér, the now-unused subdivision of the forint. Some dot matrix printers of the NEC Pinwriter series, namely the P3200/P3300 (P20/P30), P6200/P6300 (P60/P70), P9300 (P90), P7200/P7300 (P62/P72), P22Q/P32Q, P3800/P3900 (P42Q/P52Q), P1200/P1300 (P2Q/P3Q), P2000 (P2X) and P8000 (P72X), supported the installation of optional font EPROMs.^[5] Named "CWI" the optional ROM #7 "Hungaria" included this encoding, invokable via escape sequence ESC R (n) with (n) = 21.^[5]

CWI-1

The codepage CWI-1 differs only by the position of "Í" (U+00CD, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE) on position 8C instead of 8D and "Ő" (U+0150, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE) on position 8B instead of A7.^[6] This codepage is known by Star printers and FreeDOS as Code page 3845 (earlier it was known by FreeDOS as Code page 57781).

See also

• Kamenický encoding
• Mazovia encoding