Re: [WinMac] ASCII is not ASCII

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:14:30 -0700

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> Perhaps someone can explain the difference between DOS and Windows. Some
> years ago I had a job to edit some files made in Microsoft Word 4 (DOS).
> Moving these even to Win 3.1 (Windows Word 1 I think) resulted in some
> characters changing.

Well there were a number of different font schemes for use with the old
DOS version of Word, most of which were mutually incompatible. Also, as
you surmised, it could have been code page problem. Try switching the
Windows machine to German localization and see what happens...

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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