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- From: kosta@blues.kk.sub.org (Kosta Kostis)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,soc.culture.nordic,soc.culture.german,soc.culture.french,alt.f
- Subject: Re: 8-bit news
- Summary: What's your original problem?
- Keywords: CodePages DOS
- Message-ID: <THLTwB1w165w@blues.kk.sub.org>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 22:28:16 MET
- References: <1993Jan3.013554.521@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: The Blues Family
- Lines: 40
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- ddawson@mothra.syr.EDU (Dick Dawson) writes:
-
- > Further problem: I haven't found any way to get to any useful code
- > pages from any application, esp where needed, eg: in a text editor.
-
- "Get" Code Pages? You can use *one* Code Page at a given time.
- I don't know a single DOS-application that supports multiple
- Code Pages in one document. Neither does DOS.
-
- > Sure, I can re install moststupiddos for another country. Therefore
- > trashing my whole file system.
-
- What makes you believe that?
- Have you ever played with your CONFIG.SYS: COUNTRY, DISPLAY.SYS, KEYB?
-
- > What I need is a switch on the fly
- > system, or, better, European characters available at any time by some
- > simple key combination.
-
- Code Page 850 is a good starter - even for the US. I use it right now,
- but when my message gets transfered out of my system I translate it into
- ISO 8859-1, so that's how the umlauts are encoded in my .signature.
-
- > Any help available?
- >
- > No moststupidwindows please.
-
- Sad. :-) Windows allows more than one font and character set and
- depending on what language version of Windows you use you may have
- ISO 8859-1 as the default character set.
-
- Windows NT will have UniCode (ISO 10646/16-bit).
-
- Kosta
-
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- Kosta Kostis, Talstrasse 25, D-6074 Roedermark 3, Germany
- kosta@blues.kk.sub.org (home)
- sw authors: please support ISO 8859-x! Σ÷ⁿ─╓▄▀ = aeoeueAEOEUEss
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