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This question may concern all NT platforms (ie NT4, 2K, 2K3, XP).
As you know, if we type something other than pure ASCII in a text file, like:
ça a été très joli
in notepad, save the file and display it under DOS, those "extended"
characters (eg ç) aren't displayed correctly because DOS use CP850 (or CP437
for pure English version). The same problem happens the other way round, ie
when the text file is created under DOS (eg from logging output) and opened
in Windows environment.
Even though I don't expect DOS to support Unicode, I'm wondering if there is
any hidden, undocumented feature of DOS which makes it accept ISO-8859-1 (a
subset of Unicode) instead of CP850 or CP437 or anything else.
As you know, if we type something other than pure ASCII in a text file, like:
ça a été très joli
in notepad, save the file and display it under DOS, those "extended"
characters (eg ç) aren't displayed correctly because DOS use CP850 (or CP437
for pure English version). The same problem happens the other way round, ie
when the text file is created under DOS (eg from logging output) and opened
in Windows environment.
Even though I don't expect DOS to support Unicode, I'm wondering if there is
any hidden, undocumented feature of DOS which makes it accept ISO-8859-1 (a
subset of Unicode) instead of CP850 or CP437 or anything else.