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ddawson@mothra.syr.EDU (Dick Dawson) writes:

> Further problem: I haven't found any way to get to any useful code
> pages from any application, esp where needed, eg: in a text editor. 

"Get" Code Pages? You can use *one* Code Page at a given time.
I don't know a single DOS-application that supports multiple
Code Pages in one document. Neither does DOS.

> Sure, I can re install moststupiddos for another country.  Therefore
> trashing my whole file system.  

What makes you believe that?
Have you ever played with your CONFIG.SYS: COUNTRY, DISPLAY.SYS, KEYB?

>                            What I need is a switch on the fly
> system, or, better, European characters available at any time by some
> simple key combination.

Code Page 850 is a good starter - even for the US. I use it right now,
but when my message gets transfered out of my system I translate it into
ISO 8859-1, so that's how the umlauts are encoded in my .signature.

> Any help available?
> 
> No moststupidwindows please.

Sad.  :-)  Windows allows more than one font and character set and
depending on what language version of Windows you use you may have
ISO 8859-1 as the default character set.

Windows NT will have UniCode (ISO 10646/16-bit).

	Kosta


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  sw authors: please support ISO 8859-x!      äöüÄÖÜß = aeoeueAEOEUEss