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In article <3dde2028$1@newsgroups.borland.com>, Pim-Jan Veenendaal wrote:
> Can I set the OEM code page for a process to 850 without setting it system
> wide? 

No.

> I have a database in which the data is entered in this OEM code page.
> Data can only be changed by a process using this codepage 850. Is this
> possible?

The database should not care what the codepage is, you only have to convert 
the data you feed it to the 850 codepage. The WideCharToMultibyte API 
function may come in handy for this purpose.
 
> How is this codepage initialized on a system? 

Very platform-specific. Win95 actually used the good old config.sys file for 
this, if memory serves. For NT there is a registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage 

under which there is a value named OEMCP. This defines the OEM codepage. On 
my system (german Win2K) it is set to 850. You will also find a value named 
"850" under this key. You can only use the codepage if that value is not 
empty. 

This stuff, among others, is documented in MS Knowlegebase article Q102987, 
by the way.


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