Subj : Fw: Deletion of files with special characters in name] To : All From : ESFabian Date : Mon Mar 04 2002 03:27 am From: ESFabian@BellAtlantic.net The explanation below is from one of the authors of 4NT.EXE etc. "Rex Conn" wrote in message news:<134053@jpsoft.support>... > > > At the user's request I am forwarding the problem report. I suspect the > > problem may be a different manifestation of the other problem that > > different sets of commands do not work under different regional/language > > settings. > > > > From: Ulrich Hagen > > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.4dos > > Subject: Deletion of files with special characters in name > > Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:50:04 +0100 > > > > recently I found that my copy of 4NT can not delete a file which has > > one or more "umlaute" in its name. > > No, it's a result of the ASCII<->Unicode translations, not the problem of > "missing" commands under different language settings. (The latter problem > has been fixed for the next build; it was a result of Windows changing the > ASCII collating sequence for different languages.) > > The umlaute problem is due to Windows not being able to translate many > (though not all!) of the extended characters from ASCII to Unicode and back > again without losing the original character. There isn't any workaround for > this other than producing a Unicode version of 4NT & TCMD/32 (also in the > works); though that naturally won't work on Win9x. > > - Rex > > > --- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-2 * Origin: Mach2 Systems (1:342/3) .