The Kamenický encoding, named for the brothers Jiří and Marian Kamenický, was a code page for personal computers running DOS, very popular in Czechoslovakia around 1985–1995. Another name for this encoding is KEYBCS2, the name of the Terminate and Stay Resident utility which implemented the matching keyboarddriver. It was also named KAMENICKY. It was based on the code page 437 encoding where most of the characters from code points128 to 173 were replaced by Czech and Slovak characters chosen so that the glyphs of the replacement characters resembled those of the original as closely as possible, e. g. č in the place of ç. This ensured that text in the Kamenický encoding was readable even on older or cheap computers with the original fonts. A supplemental feature was that the block graphic and box-drawing characters of code page 437 remained unchanged. The widespread use of the Kamenický encoding was undermined neither by IBM's code page 852, nor by the Windows 3.1 introducing Microsoft Central Europecode page 1250. Only with Windows 95 and the spreading deployment of Microsoft Office did users begin to use code page 1250, which in turn is now obsoleted by Unicode. Some ambiguity exists in the official code page assignment for the Kamenický encoding: Some dot matrix printers of the NEC Pinwriter series, namely the P3200/P3300, P6200/P6300, P9300, P7200/P7300, P22Q/P32Q, P3800/P3900, P1200/P1300, P2000 and P8000, supported the installation of optional font EPROMs. The optional ROM #2 "East Europe" included this encoding, invokable via escape sequenceESC R with = 23. While named "Kamenický" in the documentation, it was originally advertised by NEC as code page 867 or "Czech". The FujitsuDL6400 / DL6600 printers support the Kamenický encoding as well. The encoding was also sometimes called code page 895, for example with FoxPro, in the WordPerfect text processor and under the Arachneweb browser for DOS, but IBM uses this code page number for a different encoding, CM/Group 2: 7-bit Latin SBCS: Japanese or Japan 7-Bit Latin , and the IANA does not recognize the number at all. The DOS code page switching file NECPINW.CPI for NEC Pinwriters supported the Kamenický encoding under both, code page 867 and 895 as well. This encoding is known as code page 3844 in Star printers.
Character set
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 ASCII and code page 437. Differences from code page 437 are boxed.
