>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.
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.