OemToAnsi patch from 2000-07-04

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 03:53:09AM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>Anyway, if Egor would like to handle only output messages in the
>OEM codepage (866), the idea proposed by Brad Town in the
>following message, where an escape sequence switches codepages,
>seems to work well.
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-10/msg00848.html

Has anyone else actually tried this patch?  I have grown leery of
applying patches that "work fine" in the console code.

If this is desireable, I'll look into getting an assignment and
applying the patch.

cgf