This ensured that text in the Kamenický encoding was (barely) readable even on older or cheap computers with the original fonts (which were often in videocard ROM, making modification difficult if not impossible).

A supplemental feature was that the block graphic and box-drawing characters of code page 437 remained unchanged (IBM's official Central-European code page 852 did not have this property, making programs like Norton Commander look funny with corners and joints of border lines broken by accented letters).

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 (P20/P30), P6200/P6300 (P60/P70), P9300 (P90), P7200/P7300 (P62/P72), P22Q/P32Q, P3800/P3900 (P42Q/P52Q), P1200/P1300 (P2Q/P3Q), P2000 (P2X) and P8000 (P72X), supported the installation of optional font EPROMs.

[5] The encoding was also sometimes called code page 895 (CP895),[6] for example with FoxPro,[1] in the WordPerfect[7][8] text processor and under the Arachne[8] web browser for DOS, but IBM uses this code page number for a different encoding,[1] CM/Group 2: 7-bit Latin SBCS: Japanese (EUC-JP JIS-Roman)[8][9] or Japan 7-Bit Latin (00895),[10] and the IANA does not recognize the number at all.