On 13/02/2008, Jack D. Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can check it yourself here:
>  http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/oem/437.mspx

Thanks. Wikipedia also has a "differences from ascii" section in their
page on codepage 437. It is ascii compatible in the latin letter range
at least. So that is not causing the display of hash marks. Maybe real
hash marks did get written to the file, but I was searching for
another explanation.

Dotan Cohen

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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