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

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> 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.

I am not sure, but the non-breaking space is then probably coming from 
Control Panel - Regional and Language Options - Regional Options (tab) - 
Standard and Formats - Number (on Windows XP). I can think of nothing 
else I have changed in this area.

Then this is the normal condition for many pc:s in Sweden. Where do I 
found the codepage used by cmd.exe? What should Emacs do in this situation?