Re: More Code Page wierdness

> > Not sure what would be involved in requiring the file to be UTF8.
> > Notepad can certainly handle UTF8, but I wonder how much 
> would need to 
> > bec hanged in pg...
> 
> I think it would Just Work, since UTF8 is an ASCII superset, 

Ok.

> whereas apparently some of Windows' code pages are not :-( 
> (which is proof of brain death in Redmond if I ever saw it).

I've never seen one that changes any chars <= 127. But it's possible the
editor in this case wrote down a file in the wrong charset.
Looking at http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/wincp.mspx, "*"
is 002A in *every single one*, inlcuding japanese. 

Looking at http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/oem/437.htm, it
shows that it's 002A in the very encoding Simon said was used in this
case. So it is in
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/oem/850.htm, which is the
OEM codepage used in Swedish windows.

I'm having trouble seeing why '*' would have a different value in
different codepages. I'm wondering if we're going down the wrong road
completely here?

//Magnus

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