Re: [Mingw-users] MSYS code page

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

> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 13:35:54 +0100
> From: Erwin Waterlander <wat...@xs...>
> 
> CP862 has only raster font. And when you switch to ansi CP1255 you can 
> select Lucida Console, or Consolas. But both do not contain Hebrew 
> characters

Right.  In fact, the cp862 fonts are cp437 fonts, so you get mixed
Latin-1 and line-drawing characters instead.

> Now I see that OEM is still deep inside cmd.exe and its default 
> terminal. They should have cleaned it up. And created appropriate fonts. 
> If not for cmd.exe then certainly for PowerShell which never existed in 
> the DOS time.

I'm not an expert, but I suspect the console itself is involved, not
only cmd.exe.  So any console program, including PowerShell, will
suffer from at least some of these deficiencies.