Umlauts on commandline and in .bat files

[Ralf Fassel]

* egor duda
| >>     h:\ralf\si++.4.0.C138>./t.exe "-Í_õ÷³¯"
| >>     055 315 137 365 367 263 257
| 
| CV> CMD is running with OEM character set, Cygwin processes with ANSI.
| 
| But one can change the latter by adding 'codepage:oem' to then CYGWIN
| environment variable.

I'd rather change the former... :-/

I thought the character set only determines which character
representation is shown on the screen (octal 304 is Umlaut-A in one
set and fuzzy-bar in another), not which *byte* value is passed to the
command?  Octal 304 is octal 304 no matter what character set?

R'

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