Well, I am for from being an expert too on that. I tend to believe, code page 437 which was mostly the standard in DOS (at least US version)... was later mostly replaced by code page 1250 in Windows.
Edit: looks like I am wrong: "ANSI Windows code pages, and especially the code page 1252, were called that way since they were purportedly based on drafts submitted or intended for ANSI. However, ANSI and ISO have not standardized any of these code pages. " from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_code_page ANSI is shown here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa245259(v=vs.60).aspx where olid blocks are undefined characters and may appear differently on output devices. I did not took time to study this chart to know which code page it is. In FREEDOS, http://www.freedos.org/technotes/technote/txt/141.txt is likely the reference. Also in http://www.freedos.org/kernel/config.txt we have: "COUNTRY Usage: country=nnn[,[mmm][,[d:][path]file]] Only limited country=nnn support is presently available. Enables/sets international features of DOS nnn is country code (001==US) mmm is code page (437 is default, 850 is updated form, 1252 for Windows) [drive][path]file specifies file with country specific data e.g. country=001,850,C:\FDOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYS" Yeah, it is not too obvious, and I did not read all that myself yet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
