On Sat, 19 Dec 2015, Henrique Peron wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> CP437 is very weak. It only covers german, swedish and finnish. It is
> only a "copy" of the table of characters available on those old CGA
> cards.

Should cover Spanish and Dutch too.  I think it also covers Catalan.

> There's a catch here: MS-DOS only provided cp850 for western Europe;
> IBM-DOS also provided cp858, which is "cp850+Euro sign", that's why it
> is the official codepage for western european languages on FreeDOS.

Only starting in 1998, though.

-uso.

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