In
computing, a
code page is a table of values that describes the character set used for
encoding a particular set of
glyphs, usually combined with a number of
control characters. The term "code page" originated from
IBM's
EBCDIC-based mainframe systems, but many vendors use this term including
Microsoft,
SAP, and
Oracle Corporation. Vendors often allocate their own code page number to a
character encoding, even if it is better known by another name (for example
UTF-8 character encoding has code page numbers 1208 at IBM, 65001 at Microsoft, 4110 at SAP).