At 11:45 PM 3/7/02 +0000, Martin Kochanski wrote:
>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.
But typing ALT-"0"248 does generate the correct character when I try it.
ALT-248 without the 0 would generate the MS-DOS character. I've tried it on
NT4 and could not reproduce the problem (*unless* it's not in the command
prompt itself, but in another *application* that's run under the command
prompt, and then who knows what they do to the character.)
A./
PS: I tried to answer Indie.Toor directly, but got an error message back.
>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:
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Any help would be much appreciated.
> >
> >Indie Toor
> >Indie.Toor@ecb.int
> >NT Desktop Support
> >European Central Bank
> >
> >-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
> >(End of Report)
> >
> >
> >
> >
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