Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 09:11:59 -0400
Message-Id: <199607241311.JAA19058@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960724152437.13991D-100000@is> (message from Eli
	Zaretskii on Wed, 24 Jul 1996 15:40:09 +0200 (IST))
Subject: Re: GNU Gettext on MSDOS


> What I cannot easily figure out is this: are the ASCII codes of the
> characters the same on Unix and MSDOS, at least for European languages?  
> If not, then I'd rather not mess with this now, because I don't know 
> enough about it and don't have European support installed anywhere nearby 
> to play with it.

ISO-LATIN-1 characters do not map directy to standard PC code pages.
IBM dropped about half the accented characters in favor of nifty
character cell graphics.  I think the PC predates ISO-LATIN-1, so this
wasn't on purpose.