OpenEuphoria

code pages I think

• Posted by John McAdam <johnmcadam at clix.pt> May 10, 2001
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Hello fellow euphorians
	I thought I would just jot off a simple little program to
interchange capitals with small letters, vice versa and etc. -
simple text manipulation stuff (I thought).
	I am using text files created in notepad, written in
Portuguese. I made a table in my euphoria program of the 
varios accented vowels and their small/capital counterparts.
you know, like
     if s[k] = 'a' <with an accent> then 
        s[k] = 'A' <with an accent>
     end if
Well, that just made a mess. Apparently what Notepad thinks
is different  from what msdos thinks. I looked up the portuguese
codepage in my msdos manual but that wasn't the problem. 
Must be that Notepad uses some other codepage?
I tried running the text files through Word and saving as
msdos text instead of just text and that was better, but some
letters are still off. And that leaves me with the problem of
how does my text routine know whether a text file was saved
as msdos text or just text? Notepad seems to read either and
display them correctly.
I could make two tables I guess, but how to know which to use?
A rather confused JOHN