I learned about Code Page today at my co-op work place. A code Page consists of a table of characters and each character is assigned a unique value in that Code Page. These values are used to store the characters in the computer and are further used for encoding purposes. Code pages were initially developed by IBM and each language has its own code page. IBM iSeries machine used in banking purposes still uses these code pages to implement second language option for specific countries in the MCH cluster.