From: Doug Ewell (dewell@roadrunner.com)
Date: Fri Oct 12 2007 - 23:01:15 CDT
Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft dot com> wrote:
> Actually, I think what's happening is that "?" is used as the default
> code page mapping for characters not supported in a code page. So, if
> an app takes Unicode data and pumps it into (say) code page 1252, then
> a character like U+0915 will map into 0x3F "?".
This is explicitly specified in the "best fit" mappings on the Unicode
site, which are based on .NET behavior, as Peter knows:
CPINFO 1 0x3f 0x003f ;Single Byte CP, Default Char = Question Mark
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