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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 19:56:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: CYGWIN=codepage:oem in User's Guide
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After researching a bit on the Internet, I think I understand what
the codepage is and how it works in the CYGWIN environment variable. 
Please read this snippit of text meant eventually for

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html

and give me any feedback about any errors:

<i>codepage:[ansi|oem]</i> - Windows console applications use one 
of two character sets for drawing characters, "ansi" or "oem". The 
first is the default, called "ansi" since the Windows 1.0 set
was the ANSI Latin1 (ISO 8859-1) standard, though the character
sets have since diverged from any standard. The second character
sets are the older, DOS-based character set, called "oem" since
originally they were encoded on the firmware of IBM PCs by OEMs.
If you find that some characters (especially non-US or 'graphical'
ones) do not display correctly in Cygwin, you can manually set
which codepage you want to use.

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