Re: [Mingw-users] MSYS code page

[Eli Z. <el...@gn...>]

> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:13:31 -0200
> From: Renato Silva <br....@gm...>
> 
> 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.

Can you show some evidence to this?

Don't forget that Windows itself translates characters to produce the
best output for the codepage.  So what you see might be Windows
behinds the scenes, not the application.