IsValidCodePage info Overview Group

The IsValidCodePage determines whether a specified code page is valid.

BOOL IsValidCodePage(

UINT CodePage	// specifies code page to check
);

Parameters

CodePage: Specifies the code page to check. Each code page is identified by a unique number.

If the code page is valid, the return value is nonzero.

If the code page is not valid, the return value is zero. To get extended error information, call GetLastError.

A code page is considered valid only if it is installed in the system.

Following are the code-page identifiers:

Identifier	Meaning
037	EBCDIC
437	MS-DOS United States
500	EBCDIC "500V1"
708	Arabic (ASMO 708)
709	Arabic (ASMO 449+, BCON V4)
710	Arabic (Transparent Arabic)
720	Arabic (Transparent ASMO)
737	Greek (formerly 437G)
775	Baltic
850	MS-DOS Multilingual (Latin I)
852	MS-DOS Slavic (Latin II)
855	IBM Cyrillic (primarily Russian)
857	IBM Turkish
860	MS-DOS Portuguese
861	MS-DOS Icelandic
862	Hebrew
863	MS-DOS Canadian-French
864	Arabic
865	MS-DOS Nordic
866	MS-DOS Russian
869	IBM Modern Greek
874	Thai
875	EBCDIC
932	Japan
936	Chinese (PRC, Singapore)
949	Korean
950	Chinese (Taiwan, Hong Kong)
1026	EBCDIC
1200	Unicode (BMP of ISO 10646)
1250	Windows 3.1 Eastern European
1251	Windows 3.1 Cyrillic
1252	Windows 3.1 US (ANSI)
1253	Windows 3.1 Greek
1254	Windows 3.1 Turkish
1255	Hebrew
1256	Arabic
1257	Baltic
1361	Korean (Johab)
10000	Macintosh Roman
10001	Macintosh Japanese
10006	Macintosh Greek I
10007	Macintosh Cyrillic
10029	Macintosh Latin 2
10079	Macintosh Icelandic
10081	Macintosh Turkish