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Re: The C locale
* Lapo Luchini (Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:11:48 +0200)
>
> Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > * Lapo Luchini (Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:26:32 +0200)
> >> But cmd.exe isn't even capable of printing the Euro sign (no cygwin
> >> involved, I mean the plain Windows Prompt), I guess there's no hope to
> >> ever seeing in there anything but a very limited output... (which
> >> surprises me a bit: Euro sign is present in CP1252)
> >
> > Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
> > Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
> >
> > thorsten@HOMBRE[C:\Users\thorsten]> echo â
> > â
> >
> > thorsten@HOMBRE[C:\Users\thorsten]> chcp
> > Active code page: 437
>
> OK, so it *can* display it.
> But why it does not, when showing a filename?
> (which was what I did in the previous message to check)
>
> http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/7821/winprompt.png
>
> I created a file "aÃâ?.txt" in WinExplorer, and then:
>
> C:\>dir *.txt
> Volume in drive C is Primary
> Volume Serial Number is 8437-B5FC
>
> Directory of C:\
>
> 23/09/2009 06.58 0 aÃ??.txt
> 1 File(s) 0 bytes
Works for me, too. Maybe not only the codepage but also the GUI locale
settings are involved. This is on Windows 7.
Thorsten
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