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Supporting of old DOS codepage 850 (and 858)

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Mirco Babin
2008-09-15
2012-11-13

  • Mirco Babin

    Mirco Babin - 2008-09-15

    Believe it or not, I'm programming in an environment that uses the old DOS codepage 850. Later this became codepage 858 (this is codepage 850 with the euro-sign). Every windows ships with codepage 850, codepage 858 was never adopted by Microsoft.

    Currently there is only support for ANSI, UTF-8, UCS-2 and UCS-4 in Notepad++. I request support for codepage 850.

     

    • Harry

      Harry - 2008-09-15

      You can try selecting the 'MS-DOS' language, or just use the LINEDRAW font which gets shipped with Notepad++, I think that should render the right glyphs even when reading as the systems codepage.
      I don't think its useful to add Cp850/858 just for DOS support, its more or less deprecated ;), you are probably better of using a tool to convert to the current ANSI codepage, edit, then convert back