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Hello Gunter, On Tuesday August 25 2020 23:14, you wrote to me: GS>>> Because it was programmed 30 years ago in the MS-DOS era :-) MvdV>> 30 years ago MS-DOS could already deal with CP866. GS> But not simultaneously with CP437 !!! Of course not. Even today no application can deal with two codepages simultaneously. It was and still is one at the time. One good reason to go UTF-8.... Cheers, Michiel --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20170303* Origin: ZC1 certified techno-dick (2:280/5555) |
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