Re: DOS v Win encoding

[Wolfgang Bechstein bechstein@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks for looking into this. I feel helped already. Please continue whenever
convenient.

"Robert Holmgren"  wrote:

> Can you nail down whether the Nipponese version of XP is using UTF-8 or not?

The jury is still out (I'm waiting for an answer from someone), but it
now seems as if my assumption was incorrect, and UTF-16 is the native
format, as in other versions of Windows.

> Go into DOS and find out what CodePages
> are installed. Command "CHCP" by itself, to determine your
> current CodePage, then "CHCP #", where "#" is a CodePage. Try
> 1252, 850, 437, 942 (local Japanese), and others (1390, 1399,
> 290, 930, 939, 65001). What is available, i.e. installed on
> your machine?

Available: 1252, 850, 437, 932 (this is the local Japanese, _not_ 942), 65001

Not available: 942, 1390, 1399, 290, 930, 939

Wolfgang Bechstein