Re: Euro in the DOS box under Windows NT, 95, 98, 2000

From: Tex Texin (texin@progress.com)
Date: Fri Apr 14 2000 - 13:20:45 EDT


Right, but if we use Lucida Console that is for code page 1252,
which we cannot set DOS to use on win 98. It only accepts 3 digit code
pages.

tex

Markus Scherer wrote:
>
> tex,
>
> on my nt4 sp5 machine, i can change to "Lucida Console" and display the Euro in the dos box without changing the codepage (i am on 437 here; i am pasting in from the character map utility, or alt-0128).
>
> by the way, if all else fails, you know that on windows nt/2000, you can "chcp 10000" and thus set the dos box to unicode (ucs-2/utf-16)?!
>
> markus

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