From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: foreign char
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"Robert L." <vlad3 AT sympatico DOT ca> wrote:

> i can't write char with accent ( é à ê ) using djgpp.
> it's certainly an ASCII setting i haven't see.
> i have try \x90 ( É ) but it's not this char djgpp output.

Works fine here.  But I have the following line in config.sys, maybe
you need something similar (with an appropriate country code):

country=044,850,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\country.sys

> (  cout<<"\x90"; )
> And with this char, the warning
> escape sequence out of range of character

Again, works fine here.  Can you post the full source code to a short
test program that demonstrates this, together with the compile command
and what version of DJGPP/GCC you use?