RE: character 173

From: Murray Sargent (murrays@microsoft.com)
Date: Wed Aug 11 1999 - 21:11:50 EDT


I'm curious too. Which code page did you use on your Win95 and WinNT
computers? The system mapping function is MultiByteToWideChar() and for all
the codepages 1250 - 1258, Win9x and WinNTx map 183 (0xB7) to 0xB7 (MIDDLE
DOT). To see these mappings and some common DBCS mappings as well, click on
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/WinCP.asp.

Murray

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mohrin@sharmahd.com [SMTP:mohrin@sharmahd.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 8:56 AM
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: Re: character 173
>
> On Mon, 9 Aug 1999 21:22:58 -0700 (PDT), faghihi wrote:
>
> >The character cell with decimal code 173 has problem in Windows 95 .
> where
> >mapped to the Unicode index?
> >for example The character cell with decimal code 183 has different
> behaviors
> >in Windows 95 and Windows NT. In Windows 95 it is mapped to the Unicode
> >index 22C5h, but in Windows NT it is mapped to 00B7h.
>
> I'm just curious: what do you mean by "In Windows 95 it is mapped..."?
> How does this problem manifest itself?
>
>
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