Re: [Mingw-users] MSYS code page

[Erwin W. <wat...@xs...>]

Op 15-2-2013 17:13, Renato Silva schreef:
>
> Erwin, the reason why I haven't switched to ANSI in cmd.exe is because 
> there are Windows programs themselves that work only with the OEM code 
> page, at least in Windows 32-bits. For example, ipconfig and even 
> cmd.exe itself will send CP850 bytes to Windows console even though 
> active code page is 1252. So I think one reason why they didn't 
> migrate to ANSI was because of programs shipped with Windows itself.
>

What a mess...

> One problem of multiple encodings is mixing them together in your 
> terminal. It's annoying having to choose one encoding for the terminal 
> when in reality you need to deal with several from different programs. 
> For example I use MinTTY with ANSI/Latin1 but ipconfig outputs CP850. 
> The solution I'm using here is making each of these CP850 programs 
> into symlinks to a bash script that is going to use iconv to convert 
> from that to Latin1. It's been working quite well.
>
>

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Erwin Waterlander
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