From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT acp3bf DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Problems with Emacs 20.5
Date: 17 Feb 2000 08:14:17 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
[...]
> Btw, why are you using codepage 437?  I'd expect the machines in
> Western Europe to use cp850 by default, not cp437.

For many of the Western European languages, cp437 is good enough for
everyday use, and it spares you the overhead of having to set up
all that codepage stuff (EGA.CPI, CHCP, MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE)
in autoexec.bat/config.sys, saving some of those precious 640K.

True, M$ thinks CP850 should be the default (they don't even ask, MS-DOS
Setup just installs it that way) for German PC's, as an example. But
everyone knowing his DOS good enough to notice has thrown it out,
again.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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