[PATCH 0 of 6] Win32 installer updates

Pascal Quantin pascal.quantin at gmail.com
Sun Feb 8 11:09:01 CST 2009


> Okay... ISO-8859-1 puts 'ø' in byte 248, but code page 437 (old DOS
> codepage, with no support for 'æ', 'ø', 'å') and code page 850 both puts
> a '°' sign there. In CP850 the 'ø' replaces '¢' from CP437.
>
> So you could try with da_DK.cp850 to see if that makes 'ø' appear.
>
> I used these tables to reconstruct what was happening:
>
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_850
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-1
>

Hi,
it didn't change the character displayed: I still have the '°' sign
displayed instead of  'ø' (still working fine in msys).

Regards,
Pascal



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