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>Did they add seamless transcoding for old files from DOS? Of course not! A Russian version of Windows effectively used two different encodings: native Windows
by coldacid 5y ago
>Did they add seamless transcoding for old files from DOS? Of course not! A Russian version of Windows effectively used two different encodings: native Windows parts used Windows-1251, while the DOS subsystem still used CP866.
To be fair, for those of us in the west, it was similar, if not quite as bad. CP437 and Windows-1252 were nearly as different. Woe to you if you opened a DOS text file in Notepad, especially if it had ASCII or box art, because it'd look all messed up, and vice versa.