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

[Jason Rumney]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > This is because DOS programs and Windows programs use different 
> > coding-systems for their output.
> >     
>
> I believe you mean "console programs and GUI programs", not "DOS
> programs and Windows programs", is that right?
>   

Right. Native Windows console programs tend to use the DOS codepage 
corresponding to the user's locale. But I think ports of GNU tools are 
likely to use the equivalent ISO encoding (especially Cygwin, which 
ignores Windows and runs in its own world), and since these are very 
useful and widely used by Emacs users, I wouldn't want to fix on the DOS 
codepage for process I/O.