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Subject:	Re: CharToOemBuff in fhandler_console.cc
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From:	Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
Date:	18 Oct 2000 02:11:20 +0900
In-Reply-To:	"Town, Brad"'s message of Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:36:04 -0400
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>>> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:36:04 -0400
>>> "Town, Brad" <btown AT ceddec DOT com> said:

> On my system (Win2K), the call to CharToOemBuff in
> fhandler_console::write_normal in the CVS sources is changing graphic
> characters such as the solid block ('\333') into other incorrect characters
> such as a capital U.

The Cygwin DLL handles characters in ANSI codepages for getting
more compatibility with UNIX since the 1.1.4 release. '\333'
means a capital U with a circumflex accent in the Cygwin DLL the
same as in UNIX. So you can't use graphic characters included in
OEM codepages in Cygwin applications.
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  | AIST      Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
  | HOKURIKU  School of Information Science
o_/ 1990      Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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