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Date:      Thu, 1 Aug 1996 21:07:50 +0300 (EET DST)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: anyone working on upgrading the msdosfs to NetBSD levels?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960801210543.17950D-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <199608011732.TAA19103@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, J Wunsch wrote:

> As [?KOI8-R?] wrote:
> 
> > There is yet one interesting thing: DOS national charset
> > used, not Windows one. For Russian Windows charset (CP1251)
> > is different with DOS one (CP866). So Win95 does special efforts
> > to convert between charsets.
> 
> Btw., that's same for German.  DOS uses cp437, but Winlose uses what
> they call `ANSI' that is close to ISO-8859-1.

It does so in every and other place where there is a separate code page 
for DOS but windows uses just the same one they call ansi. I hope not 
everybody from every such country (all western European + I think also 
others) will not want to say here too!

	Sander

> 
> -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
> 



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