From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 1 11:03:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA28651 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 11:03:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA28646 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 11:03:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA18270; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 21:07:50 +0300 Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 21:07:50 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: Joerg Wunsch cc: FreeBSD hackers Subject: Re: anyone working on upgrading the msdosfs to NetBSD levels? In-Reply-To: <199608011732.TAA19103@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-) >