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Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 09:12:08 +0000
From: Matthias Paul <MPaul AT calderauk DOT com>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com, paul-ma AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
Subject: Re: national characters in filenames
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On 97/11/03 Michal Kopec asked:
>I've installed OD 7.01 on my computer. I works perfectly with 
>WfW3.11. However it refuses to read my files with national 
>characters (Polish - CP852) in file names created by previous 
>MSDOS.
>Is there any solution to force OD to read these files ?

This is interesting. I guess you do not have yet used Windows95 
LFNs or Caldera s LONGNAME driver, which cause several
implications in national language support. (LONGNAME 1C does
not support special chars at the moment. Windows95 does with Unicode, 
but it does not (easily) allow to switch codepages.)

The only guess I have, is that your national language support is not configured correctly on your system. Are the filenames displayed with strange characters?

There has been a problem with IBMDOS.COM s usage of UCASE, which
instead used FUCASE. The COD 7.02 BETA 2 (coming soon) will solve this problem. But this should not have affected your problem.

Please provide more details on your NLS configuration, and the actual
filenames. Can you see your files from a shell like the NC?

 Matthias


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