This is because the MSDOS Prompt is using Code Page 850 rather than Code Page 1252.
248 in CP 850 is ° and in CP1252 is ø.
195 in CP 850 is a line-drawing character and in CP1252 is Ã.
You may be able to use the CHCP command to change the code page you are using, but I don't know very much about this.
At 10:00 07/03/02 -0800, Magda Danish (Unicode) wrote:
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>I have MS Windows NT 4 installed with Service Pack 6a on several PCs. The keyboard is set to English (United States). Within all 32-bit applications ALT-0248 "ø" is working fine. However, within a MS Command Prompt the above ALT does not work and I get a "o" instead. The keyb in MS DOS is set to "us 437". This means that the ALT-0248 does not work in 16-bit applications.
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>Any help would be much appreciated.
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>Indie Toor
>Indie.Toor@ecb.int
>NT Desktop Support
>European Central Bank
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