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 | | The codes can assume their original function as controls, but when placed in display RAM, for example in a screen editor like MS-DOS edit, they show as graphics. |
 | | The high-bit range, 0x80—0xFF, is mapped to various symbols: a few European characters (accented Latin vowels, etc) in no particular order and not sufficient for representation of most Western European languages, box drawing characters, mathematical symbols and a few Greek letters. |
 | | All CP437 characters are in Unicode and in Microsoft's WGL4 character set, therefore in most of the fonts on Microsoft Windows, and also in the default VGA font of the Linux kernel, and the ISO 10646 fonts for X11. |
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