2 May
2000
2 May
'00
10:22 a.m.
...but the system API translates from the active code page to the encoding used by the file system, right?
Yes, although I think that wasn't the case with Win16 and there are still some situations in which you have to deal with the differences. Copying a file from the console on Windows 95 to a FAT volume appears to allow use of the OEM character set with no conversion.
if I create a file with a name containing latin-1 characters, on a FAT drive, it shows up correctly in the file browser (cp1252), and also shows up correctly in the MS-DOS window (under cp850).
Do you have a FAT drive or a VFAT drive? If you format as FAT on 9x or NT you will get a VFAT volume. Neil