From: Ian Chapman Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: foreign char Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:40:31 -0500 Organization: Nortel Lines: 23 Message-ID: <38DBB69F.F28AA630@nortelnetworks.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: bcarib90.ca.nortel.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id OAB27656 Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Robert, when you set up dos you should specify your language and keyboard. Same in win95 when you first install. I think not sure that the appropriate settings are put into the dos autoexe and sysconf files by win 95 set up. It's that or do it yourself and dig up an old dos manual. Regards Ian. "Robert L." wrote: > > Hi, > 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. > ( cout<<"\x90"; ) > And with this char, the warning > escape sequence out of range of character > > Thanks.