Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>whereas apparently some of Windows' code pages are not :-(
>>(which is proof of brain death in Redmond if I ever saw it).
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>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.
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>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?
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So it's not just me. I was looking at similar pages here:
http://www.kostis.net/charsets/ and did not find one with 2A != asterisk.
cheers
andrew