Code page 855
Code page 855 is a code page used under DOS to write Cyrillic script.
Code page 872 is the euro currency update of code page/CCSID 855. Byte CF replaces ¤ with € in that code page.
It supports the repertoires of ISO-8859-5 and ISO-IR-111, in addition to preserving the semigraphic and box-drawing characters and guillemets from code page 850.
At one time it was widely used in Serbia, Macedonia and Bulgaria, but it never caught on in Russia, where Code page 866 was more common. This code page is not used much.Character set
The following table shows code page 855. Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point. Only the second half of the table is shown, the first half being the same as code page 437.
