Re: Windows + Eshell: fixing character encoding?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 29.07.2009 um 13:38 schrieb Elena Garrulo:

> 2009/7/29 Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa>:
> > From where do you know that \205 and \212 stand for à and è etc.?
>
> Because I know the italian words the program is outputting: "già" ->
> "gi\205", "è" -> "\212".


Can you check whether these are encoded in some DOS code page? No ISO  
8859/ISO Latin encoding and neither Unicode uses the range

        ;   oct   dec   hex
        ;==================
        ? = 200 = 128 = 80
                ...
        ? = 239 = 159 = 9F

to encode valid characters which can be presented as glyphs. They're  
used as so-called 8-bit control characters. DOS code pages, Mac  
encodings, and the NeXT encoding are different. (HP Roman too?)

--
Greetings

  Pete

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