My comments below. Regards Cathy
-----Original Message----- From: Philippe Verdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wow, thanks for this cool tool! Now I can edit international text for most European languages directly from my extended custom French keyboard (including the missing OE and AE ligatures that I wanted since long on the French keyboard)... [caw] You are very welcome. I'm glad it's useful--that was our goal :) How does Microsoft support the extended Unicode set from a CP850 environment? With some ANSI sequences? All I can say is that a command like "echo o" is correctly executed and accepted and displays the correct character. But "echo o >txt" creates a 4 bytes file which contains the small letter o, a CRLF sequence and a DOS EOF mark. There's some hidden magic in the console on Windows which actually can displays Unicode even in a CP850 environment... I was no aware of that fact! [caw] I am definitely not an expert on console (and I'm sure there are others on the list more knowledgeable than I on its inner workings), but from what I understand, console is more or less Unicode. There are still some legacy dependencies on the OEM code page (which you can sometimes work around via chcp to use another code page if appropriate), but the repertoire in console is not as limited as an OEM code page. The hidden magic is (more or less) Unicode.
