From: "F. Senault" <fred@...>
Date: 2009-01-11T00:24:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Encoding issue for special characters on Windows

Le 9 janvier 2009 � 10:10, Nicolas Gaiffe a �crit :

> There must be an encoding issue at some point in my script but I
> didn't manage to fix it (tried different values of '#encoding:'
> without success). Any clue ?

It depends.  If you are trying to echo something to the console, you'll
have to use CP850.

The character for � is 228 in the ISO8859-1 [1] encoding that your file
seems to use, and that corresponds to the � character in CP850 [2].

Now, if you're writing something on the screen as a means of control or
debug while manipulating files, don't convert your output to CP850 in
your resulting file !  You'd better stay in ISO, or maybe even in UTF-8,
depending on what your real goal is (website, internal application,
database, etc).

Fred
[1] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1
[2] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_850
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