Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/01/89 11:43

Wael (sedky@rocketmail.com) writes:
> Does this require any special install on the server? I tried -C863 for
> Canadian French, but the server does not recognize that code page.

I have not heard of 863 before, but it sounds like an OEM code page.

Playing around a little, it appears that you can only use code pages
for which there are one or more collations. For instace, I tried CP852
which is Eastern Europe, but this gave me an error. On the the other
hand, 874 worked. (There are a number of Thai collations with that code
page.)

But is your file really in code page 863? And in such case how different
would it be from code page 850? (My standard source for checking out
code pages is down, so I can't check right now.)

Did you try -C RAW?


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