Dear Carl
Setting the code page to 437 in XP solves the problem, even though the
code page in AUTOEXEC.TXT is 1252. Curiously both setups, XP and
Windows 7 were identical with 1252 in autoexec.txt and 850 set in
STARTUP.INT. I have now changed this to 437 in the XP setup (in a
virtual machine) but left it at 850 in Windows 7.
Thanks for the solution to the problem.
Paul
PS Do I pay any price for changing from 850 to 437? I cannot remember
now what the differences are.
On 07/05/2016 19:13, Carl Distefano wrote:
Is your default LA (code page) set to 850? If your default code page in
AUTOEXEC.TXT in 437 (command CHCP 437), then default LA in XyWrite
should also be 437. At any rate, I've noted the phenomenon you mention
when my default LA=850, which I sometimes do temporarily because
certain printer files expect it while loading.