On 19/10/2009, Graeme Geldenhuys <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  How to I convert a file that contains text in the DOS charset to
>  UTF-8. I need this to work under Linux and Windows.
>
>  The DOS charset characters used, are for box drawing and arrows. They
>  currently appear on my system (Linux) as follows:
>
>      ÄÄÄstatementÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ


I found the relevant character mapping tables at the Unicode website -
mapping from DOS codepage to unicode characters. The one I am
interested in is CP437 to Unicode.

http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/PC/


Is such mappings already implemented in Lazarus somewhere?

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Regards,
  - Graeme -


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