ACP

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

ACP

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage

Data type Range Default value

REG_SZ

code page

1252 (U.S. English)

Description

Indicates the default code page for non-Unicode Windows characters. These code pages are supported for compatibility with non-Unicode programs. For U.S. English, the value of this entry indicates that code page 1252 and its file, C_1252.nls, are used for non-Unicode Windows characters.

Value Character set

874

Thai

932

ShiftJIS—Japan

936

GBK—Chinese (China, Singapore)

949

Korean Unified Hangul

950

Big5 Extended—Chinese (Taiwan, Hong Kong SAR)

1250

Central European

1251

Cyrillic

1252

U.S. (ANSI)

1253

Greek

1254

Turkish

1255

Hebrew

1256

Arabic

1257

Baltic

1258

Vietnamese

 

Caution

  • Changing the value of this entry could prevent the computer from properly displaying characters in non-Unicode programs, and could also result in data loss.