lived. These different systems were called <em><a href="http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/codepages.html#msftdos">code pages</a></em>. So for example in Israel DOS used a code page called 862, while Greek users used 737. They were the same below 128 but different from 128 up, where all the funny letters resided. The national versions of MS-DOS had dozens of these code pages, handling everything from English to Icelandic and they even had a few "multilingual" code pages that could do Esperanto and Galician <em>