Using more than 7 bit ASCII on windows.

[Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:38:04 +0100, "Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Not sure what's going on here...?  Perhaps an 'OEM codepage'
> in the dos-box versus another in PythonWin...?

Almost certainly. In the DOS box, you probably have OEM codepage 437 or 850,
which uses code 130 for e-acute, while in Windows, you probably have codepage
1252 (which is ISO-8859-1/Latin-1 plus a few characters), which uses code 233
for e-acute.

Cheers,
Philip
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