Code page
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 2:37 am
All of my electronic and amateur radio programs were written in QuickBasic back in the early 90s'. Computers then booted up to use code page 437. I recently gave a lecture to my local amateur radio club using a computer running DOS 6.22 only, this lecture gave an outline of programing in QuickBasic and I demonstrated several of my programs. Having been asked for copies of the programs, I ran them on a computer with 98SE only to find that where I had called up an extended character to give a particular symbol (such as omega) I now had a different character. Investigation showed that 98SE uses code page 850, hence the change of character.
I realise that it is possible to boot up using a different code page but is it possible to do this from within a QuickBasic program and return to codepage 850 on exit.
I realise that it is possible to boot up using a different code page but is it possible to do this from within a QuickBasic program and return to codepage 850 on exit.
