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Which codepage is 0x81 = ü, 0x94 = ö, 0x9A = Ü?

I've got a CSV file, which has a character encoding which I can't identify. From it's content (German language entries) I could find the following characters matching some 1-byte character encodings:

  • 0x81 = ü
  • 0x94 = ö
  • 0x9A = Ü

Which Codepage is this? Is there any website where you can maybe lookup code pages by known entries?

I was assuming this could be WINDOWS-1252 or ISO-8859-1, but it's neither of them.

Solution

  • As I found out by some more trial and error the encoding is "CP 437" or also called "DOS". Weird to see such an encoding used nowadays.