VIEW and chars in 128-255

[vefatica]

VIEW is now working OK with the example I gave earlier. It shows this BTM correctly in both text and hex mode.

echo %ø

It continues to get it right in hex mode, but if I change the text to

echo %øø

VIEW shows, in text mode

And if I change the text to

echo %ø ø

VIEW shows

 

[rconn]

I haven't changed anything in VIEW. (And since I don't have the source code, I'm not going to.)

 

[Charles Dye]

VIEW shows
View attachment 729

And that spells "mojibake" in Japanese.

 

[rconn]

It continues to get it right in hex mode, but if I change the text to
QUOTE]

Windows is probably assuming the file is Unicode. It's too short for Windows to make an accurate assessment.

What happens if you change your code page to something where that character would be sensible?

 

[vefatica]

According to Wiki, that character is in CP 1252 (and in the right place). If I use CP 1252, it looks the same in VIEW's text mode as with CP 437 ("mojibake"?). Did you notice that how VIEW rendered it changed from the first time I mentioned it in the ParamChar thread? FWIW, I put a few hundred bytes of plain batch file stuff in that file and that character still looked the same in VIEW.