Successful invocation of this function indicates that either (1) the character was directly mapped into the destination code page or, (2) the substitution character (0xFF) was returned.

The following is the list of valid code pages:

Country

Code Page
Canadian-French
863
Desktop Publishing
1004
Iceland
861
Latin 1 Multilingual
850
Latin 2 Multilingual
852
Nordic
865
Portuguese
860
Turkey
857
U.S. (IBM PC)
437

Code page 1004 is compatible with Microsoft** Windows**.

The following EBCDIC code pages, based on character set 697, are also available for output:

Country

Code Page
Austrian/German
273
Belgian
500
Brazil
037
Czechoslovakia
870
Danish/Norwegian
277
Finnish/Swedish
278
French
297
Hungary
870
Iceland
871
International
500
Italian
280
Poland
870
Portuguese
037
Spanish
284
Turkey
1026
U.K.-English
285
U.S.-English
037
Yugoslavia
870

Code pages 274 (Belgian) and 282 (Portuguese) can be used to provide access to old data.

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