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Re: CharToOemBuff in fhandler_console.cc


>>> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:36:04 -0400
>>> "Town, Brad" <btown@ceddec.com> said:

> On my system (Win2K), the call to CharToOemBuff in
> fhandler_console::write_normal in the CVS sources is changing graphic
> characters such as the solid block ('\333') into other incorrect characters
> such as a capital U.

The Cygwin DLL handles characters in ANSI codepages for getting
more compatibility with UNIX since the 1.1.4 release. '\333'
means a capital U with a circumflex accent in the Cygwin DLL the
same as in UNIX. So you can't use graphic characters included in
OEM codepages in Cygwin applications.
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  | AIST      Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp>
  | HOKURIKU  School of Information Science
o_/ 1990      Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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