Re: Character shown as \377 in *Shell* on w32

[Jason Rumney]

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> > > In *Shell* using cmdproxy.exe on w32 a character shows up as \377:
> > >
> > >     2006-12-10  16:14         6\377588\377879 emacs.exe
> > >     
>
> It is actually from a directory list where emacs.exe is shown:
>
>    2006-12-10   16:14     6 588 879 emacs.exe

It seems you have set your thousands separator to be a non-breaking 
space, and cmd.exe is using cp850 or cp437 for its output, while Emacs 
is expecting windows-1252 or iso8859-1.