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- CHDOSCP.EXE:
- CHANGING THE CODE PAGE AND KEYBOARD 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 98 does not include any feature
- that allows you to change the code page used by MS-DOS.
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- You can use CHDOSCP.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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- CHDOSCP is useful to you if your site uses an alternate character set other
- than the default code page the Windows 98 Setup uses. You know that you need
- an alternate code page if, after installing Windows 98, your MS-DOS-based
- applications do not display properly -- specifically, if the wrong fonts appear
- or the wrong characters appear as you type.
- CHDOSCP also usefull to change frequently the keyboard layout in dos mode.
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- For example, the default code page installed for French Canadian under Windows 98
- 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 CHDOSCP to install the alternate code page.
- Or suppose a multilingual user or organisation that need to change frequently
- the DOS keyboard, this tool will proof to be very handy for that matter .
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- When you choose a keyboard from the list box the tool will
- detect if the code page associated with this keyboard is different
- from the one on your system, in this case it will generate a warning that some file
- names my become unreadable in DOS mode consequently to this change, although
- files become unreadable doesn't happen systematically be aware of the risk.
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- -Important-
- The CHDOSCP 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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- changing just keyboard contain no risk as long as the code page remain the same,
- For Example :if a user have an 850 Dos code page he/she can select all the keyboards
- with the mention (850) associated, without any worry about the risk related to
- code page change.
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