"Paul Moore" <pf_moore@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:hdtvdz06.fsf@yahoo.co.uk...

> To check your codepage, type "chcp" into the DOS prompt, and it will
> tell you what your current codepage is.
>
> Paul.

Well, that's a neat trick too. So thank you.

> PS I agree - you were a bit harsh on Michel Cadot. "It works for me"
> can often be useful input - in this case, he specifically mentioned
> he is using codepage 1252, it's just that you needed the additional
> help to explain how to check your codepage and change it as
> needed...

Well, as I've said elsewhere: he told me the Character Map technique was
fine, and my syntax was fine. And I thanked him for that, and told him that
knowing those things was very valuable to me. Which bit of that was 'harsh'?
It is possible I grew up on too much Blackadder as a child, and sarcasm
drips into everything I write, but if so it wasn't intended as such. The
only line in my post which I recall being a bit peeved as I wrote it was the
very first one. After I wrote it, I made a cup of tea, came back and
finished the post off with what I hoped was a joke about the French
passport, and wrote nothing (I thought) very exceptionable after that.

If you, or indeed Michel, or indeed anyone else has taken it another way,
then I can only assure you: it wasn't written in that frame of mind, and
wasn't intended to be read that way, with the acknowledged exception of the
first line, which I should have cut.

Regards
HJR