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I'm using a Windows 7 Home in Taiwanese at work, and knowing the character set that is being used would be of invaluable importance to me.

  • How to determine the character set used by Windows in Taiwanese?

I've read that Microsoft Code page 950 is a famous variant of Taiwan Big5 character encoding (wikipedia), but I want to be sure.

If helps, here's a screenshot of the default font used in notepad: (image copied from this original link):

default font used in notepad

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By National Language Support (NLS) API Reference, Chinese (Taiwan) LCID/Culture Identifier is 0x0404 (= 1028 in decimal). OEM code page as well as ANSI code page is 950. You could convince oneself about this fact with PowerShell command

Get-Culture | Format-Custom -Property TextInfo

or, if Chinese (Taiwan) is not your system locale:

[System.Globalization.CultureInfo]::GetCultureInfo(0x0404) | `
    Format-Custom -Property TextInfo

Output:

class CultureInfo
{
  TextInfo = 
    class TextInfo
    {
      ANSICodePage = 950
      OEMCodePage = 950
      MacCodePage = 10002
      EBCDICCodePage = 500
      LCID = 1028
      CultureName = zh-TW
      IsReadOnly = True
      ListSeparator = ,
      IsRightToLeft = False
    }
}

Another Microsoft article calls code page 950 as Traditional Chinese Big5.

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