From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Message-Id: <9607241407.AA04986@axpmgr.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: GNU Gettext on MSDOS
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 16:07:46 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960724152437.13991D-100000@is> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Jul 24, 96 03:40:09 pm
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[Eli wrote: ]
> So could anybody of the European guys (Morten? Robert?) please look into 
> this and tell me if the character codes are the same?   

I haven't actually looked inside the texts, but I'm almost sure the
character codes are *not* the same. MSDOS uses its own character set
('codepage 850', or 'codepage 437' can both be used in German, e.g.),
and doesn't comply to ISO-8859-1 ('Latin1') at all. If you need
reference material, transfer the texts via 'recode'. It can translate
from DOSish to ISO-Latin-1, among other features.

This is a major nuisance in using the same text files in both DOS and
Unix here in Germany.

Hans-Bernhard Broeker (Aachen, Germany)