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Date:	Thu, 17 Feb 2000 14:08:49 +0200 (EET)
From:	Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
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To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: Problems with Emacs 20.5
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Esa A E Peuha wrote:
> 
> > First,
> > the quote "MS-DOS doesn't allow use of several codepages in a single
> > session.  Instead, MS-DOS loads a single codepage at system startup,
> > and you must reboot MS-DOS to change it" from the manual is not true;
> > DOS does allow more than one codepage to be loaded at startup, and they
> > can be changed with the CHCP command.
> 
> Right.  However, Emacs currently doesn't support the equivalent of CHCP 
> during the session, so the wording in the manual, while misleading about 
> DOS in general, is accurate as far as Emacs is concerned.

Of course that quote is accurate as far as Emacs is concerned, since it
doesn't really concern Emacs at all :-) ("session" above refers to "DOS
session", not "Emacs session", at least as I read it).  Still, I think
that "you must reboot DOS to change the codepage" is too misleading to be
acceptable.  I'll try to rephrase that passage of the manual.

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/

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