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
8_ 128	Ç 00C7	ü 00FC	é 00E9	â 00E2	ä 00E4	à 00E0	å 00E5	ç 00E7	ê 00EA	ë 00EB	è 00E8	ï 00EF	î 00EE	Í 00CD	Ä 00C4	Á 00C1
9_ 144	É 00C9	æ 00E6	Æ 00C6	ő 0151	ö 00F6	Ó 00D3	ű 0171	Ú 00DA	Ű 0170	Ö 00D6	Ü 00DC	¢ 00A2	£ 00A3	¥ 00A5	₧ 20A7	ƒ 0192
A_ 160	á 00E1	í 00ED	ó 00F3	ú 00FA	ñ 00F1	Ñ 00D1	ª 00AA	Ő 0150	¿ 00BF	⌐ 2310	¬ 00AC	½ 00BD	¼ 00BC	¡ 00A1	« 00AB	» 00BB
B_ 176	░ 2591	▒ 2592	▓ 2593	│ 2502	┤ 2524	╡ 2561	╢ 2562	╖ 2556	╕ 2555	╣ 2563	║ 2551	╗ 2557	╝ 255D	╜ 255C	╛ 255B	┐ 2510
C_ 192	└ 2514	┴ 2534	┬ 252C	├ 251C	─ 2500	┼ 253C	╞ 255E	╟ 255F	╚ 255A	╔ 2554	╩ 2569	╦ 2566	╠ 2560	═ 2550	╬ 256C	╧ 2567
D_ 208	╨ 2568	╤ 2564	╥ 2565	╙ 2559	╘ 2558	╒ 2552	╓ 2553	╫ 256B	╪ 256A	┘ 2518	┌ 250C	█ 2588	▄ 2584	▌ 258C	▐ 2590	▀ 2580
E_ 224	α 03B1	ß 00DF	Γ 0393	π 03C0	Σ 03A3	σ 03C3	µ 00B5	τ 03C4	Φ 03A6	Θ 0398	Ω 03A9	δ 03B4	∞ 221E	φ 03C6	ε 03B5	∩ 2229
F_ 240	≡ 2261	± 00B1	≥ 2265	≤ 2264	⌠ 2320	⌡ 2321	÷ 00F7	≈ 2248	° 00B0	∙ 2219	· 00B7	√ 221A	ⁿ 207F	² 00B2	■ 25A0	NBSP 00A0

  Letter   Number   Punctuation   Symbol   Other   Undefined   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.

See also

• Kamenický encoding
• Mazovia encoding

References

1. "CWI-2". Computerworld Számítástechnika. 1.0. 3 (13). 1988-06-29.
2. Flohr, Guido (2009) [2002]. "Locale::RecodeData::CWI - Conversion routines for CWI". CPAN libintl-perl. 1.0. Archived from the original on 2016-06-06. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
3. Baird, Cathy; Chiba, Dan; Chu, Winson; Fan, Jessica; Ho, Claire; Law, Simon; Lee, Geoff; Linsley, Peter; Matsuda, Keni; Oscroft, Tamzin; Takeda, Shige; Tanaka, Linus; Tozawa, Makoto; Trute, Barry; Tsujimoto, Mayumi; Wu, Ying; Yau, Michael; Yu, Tim; Wang, Chao; Wong, Simon; Zhang, Weiran; Zheng, Lei; Zhu, Yan; Moore, Valarie (2002) [1996]. "Appendix A: Locale Data" (PDF). Oracle9i Database Globalization Support Guide (Release 2 (9.2) ed.). Oracle Corporation. Oracle A96529-01. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-02-14. Retrieved 2017-02-14.
4. "Proposal to encode a Florin currency symbol" (PDF).
5. Pinwriter Familie - Pinwriter - Epromsockel - Zusätzliche Zeichensätze / Schriftarten (Printed reference manual for optional font and code page EPROMs for NEC Pinwriters, including custom variants) (in German) (00 3/93 ed.), NEC Deutschland GmbH, 1993
6. Láng, Attila D. (2001-10-15). Drótos, László (ed.). "Íráskalauz" [Guide to Writing] (in Hungarian). Hungarian Electronic Library. Retrieved 2017-10-20.