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CHCP
command. It
is probably 437, 850 or 866. Then, select the corressponding read map and
write map files that are shipped with MsgEd TE (the have names of the
form READMAPS.codepagenumber and copy them over to READMAPS.DAT
and WRITMAPS.DAT. For example, this could look like this:
R:\MSGED> CHCP Active Codepage: 850 Prepared System Codepages: 850; 437 R:\MSGED> COPY READMAPS.850 READMAPS.DAT R:\MSGED> COPY WRITMAPS.850 WRITMAPS.DAT
Please note that the filenames for the Ukrainian codepage 1125 differ from this naming scheme, they are called READMAPS.UKR and WRITMAPS.UKR.
If there is no READMAPS.XXX file corresponding to the ‘Active
Codepage’ returned by the CHCP
command, see if there is a
READMAPS.XXX file for one of the prepared codepages. If there is, use
that one, and use the CHCP
command to change to this code page each
time before starting MsgEd TE. In the example above, this command would
be CHCP 437
. You probably would want to place this command in a batch
file, together with the invoation of MsgEd TE.
If MsgEd TE does not support the codepage that you want to use, please contact the author and ask him to add support for that particular codepage.
See Using Special Characters like Umlauts or Cyrillics - The Charset Kludge, for more information on read and write map files, charset kludge lines, codepages, and character set recoding.