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crazyzed
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:37 pm Post subject: codepage vs. iocharset?

Hi, could someone please explain to me what the difference is between "codepage" and "character set". Like CP850 vs. ISO8859-1 ??? I don't find the answer and I really like to know thanx!

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Flammie
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 1:15 pm Post subject:

If I remember correctly, codepage is somewhat a MS-DOS term for character set.

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crazyzed
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 7:59 pm Post subject:

ok, thanx...it has been a confusing subject!

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