From: Jorj Strumolo 
    Robert Keith Elias  asks:
RE> Is there any way of adjusting the DOS code page so
  > that TSE and the WINDOWS programs agree on what
  > they are seeing as high ascii characters?
    Dieter Koessl  answers:
DK> Short answer: NO!
  > DOS and Windows use different character sets (code
  > pages aka fonts), and there is no DOS code page
  > which corresponds to the ANSI character set Windows uses.
 Longer answer.  Sort of.  For example, I can load a screen font
 in DOS that has the same character mapping as the Latin-1-enhanced
 set that Windows uses.  So if I want the lowercase c in "facade"
 to have the proper cedilla, I'd use decimal 231 (hex E7), instead
 of the 135 (hex 87) it is in the standard US DOS character
 mapping.  Of course TSE does look a bit odd, with all the
 line-drawing characters changed to various accented characters
 in its menus and prompt boxes.  I also have other mappings, like
 a Latin-3 one, and EZo (a riff on PC-8 used for Esperanto), and
 a print-effects icon-font I'm playing with to briefly embed
 printer sequences in TSE.
 I can also use the Latin-1+ font (a non-TSR one I made myself
 with a font editor) under Windows 3, tho only in full-screen
 mode.  I've also played with a different font maker that can
 create code pages you can load like the regular ones.  This
 might even work under Windows (95?) when not full-screen,
 tho I doubt it.  (In passing, one might note that a code page
 tells you what positions characters have in a set, and what
 characters make the set.  A font is how they look: serif or
 non, whatever.  There are many fonts for any mapping.)
 There's also the reverse, if that's useful.  The MS LineDraw
 TrueType font can be used in Windows, and it has the same
 mapping as the standard US PC-8 set.  Whether it'd be helpful
 to use that in a Windows program that lets you select a font,
 I don't know.
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