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- CHANGECP.EXE:
- CHANGING THE CODE PAGE FOR CONSOLE APPLICATIONS
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- You can use the Regional Settings option in Control Panel to change the
- locale, but this will affect only the display in Windows-based applications.
- For MS-DOS-based applications and for the MS-DOS prompt, the code page
- installed during Setup is always used. Windows 95 does not include any
- feature that allows you to change the code page used by MS-DOS.
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- You can use CHANGECP.EXE to change the code page used for MS-DOS-based
- applications and the MS-DOS prompt. This application makes all the changes
- for fonts and other system elements in the Registry and other configuration
- files.
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- CHANGECP is useful to you if your site uses an alternate character set other
- than the default code page the Windows 95 Setup uses. You know that you need
- an alternate code page if, after installing Windows 95, your MS-DOS-based
- applications do not display properly -- specifically, if the wrong fonts
- appear or the wrong characters appear as you type.
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- For example, the default code page installed for French Canadian under
- Windows 95 is 850, but your site might use code page 863 as a standard. As
- another example, the United States default is 437, but some companies choose
- to use code page 850. In these cases, use CHANGECP to install the alternate
- code page.
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- IMPORTANT: The CHANGECP utility is not designed to be used for changing code
- pages on a regular basis. Also, frequently switching the MS-DOS code page
- will confuse users of MS-DOS-based applications.
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- To change the code page used for MS-DOS-based applications:
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- 1. Copy CHANGECP.EXE and any other files in the CHANGECP directory to your
- local Windows directory.
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- 2. At the command prompt, type:
- changecp
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- 3. Select the code page you want from the list that appears.
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- Alternately, if you know the code page that you want, you can type:
- changecp <code_page_number>
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- CHANGECP automatically makes all related system changes. The next time you
- start Windows 95, the new code page will be used for all MS-DOS sessions.
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- NOTES ON CHANGING THE CODE PAGE
- The code page is an internal table that the operating system uses to relate
- the keys on the keyboard to the characters displayed on the screen. Different
- code pages provide support for the character sets and keyboard layouts used
- in different countries.
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- When you install Windows 95, Setup checks the current system configuration
- to determine the regional settings:
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- * For Typical Setup, Windows 95 Setup automatically chooses the regional
- settings for the current system configuration, and then automatically
- installs the related code pages for Windows and MS-DOS based on the
- current configuration.
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- * For Custom Setup, you can choose to specify alternate regional settings.
- Windows 95 Setup automatically installs the standard Windows and MS-DOS
- code pages for the regional settings selected.
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