Editing Code page 850 (section)

==Code page 858==
{{Infobox character encoding
|name = Code page 858
|mime = IBM00858
|alias = CCSID00858, CP00858, PC-Multilingual-850+euro<ref name="IANA_2018"/>
|encodes = [[ISO/IEC 8859-1|ISO 8859-1]]
|prev = Code page 850
}}
In 1998, '''code page 858''' ([[CCSID]] 858)<ref name="IBM_CCSID858"/> (also known as CP 858, IBM 00858, OEM 858<ref name="GGDC"/>) was derived from this code page by changing code point 213 (D5<sub>hex</sub>) from a [[dotless i]] {{angbr|ı|}} to the [[euro sign]] {{angbr|€}} {{tt|U+20AC}}.<ref name="IBM_CPGID858_TXT"/><ref name="IBM2"/><ref name="IBMCP858INFO"/> Unlike most code pages modified to support the euro sign, the generic [[currency sign (generic)|currency sign]] at CF<sub>hex</sub> was not chosen as the character to replace (compare [[ISO-8859-15]] (from [[ISO-8859-1]]), code pages [[code page 808|808]] (from 866), [[code page 848|848]] (from 1125), [[code page 849|849]] (from 1131) and [[code page 872|872]] (from 855), ISO-IR-205 (from [[ISO-8859-4]]), ISO-IR-206 (from [[ISO-8859-13]]), and the changes to [[MacRoman]] and [[MacCyrillic]]).

IBM's [[PC&nbsp;DOS 2000]], also released in 1998, just changed the definition of 850 to match 858 and called it ''modified code page 850''.<ref name="Paul_2001_COUNTRY"/><ref name="Starikov_2005_CP866"/><ref name="Paul_2001_CPSwitch-64KB-Size"/><ref name="Paul_2001_CPI"/> This was done so programs that hard-coded 850 would be able to use the Euro sign. There may also have been a problem with Code Page Information ({{tt|.CPI}}) files being limited to about six codepages maximum. More recent IBM/MS products implement codepage 858 under its own ID and have restored 850 to the original.<ref name="Paul_2001_CPSwitch-438-Entries"/>