Problems with codepages

[Gerd Müller]

Jörg Preiß schrieb:

> I am trying to start the future of my dos programs. Unfortunately, they use
> of course the codepage 437 (or 860?). Also, the international version uses

850

> ie kyrillic with a tsr program. Does anybody know how to read this data? Any
> experiences with those QT codecs?

you can use recode for translation between the most codepages. Transform to a
codepage readable for your system and use a standard tool to reading the text.
recode you can find here:
 http://www.gnu.org/software/recode/recode.html

hth,
Gerd