Win 8 and ansi

Damaged
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Win 8 and ansi

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Can you enable ansi.sys in a Win 8 environment? I searched for ansi and nothing Is it even possible to display ansi characters or extended ascii characters? :blowup:


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Re: Win 8 and ansi

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Damaged wrote:Can you enable ansi.sys in a Win 8 environment?
Welcome to Eileens Lounge.

This is not a field of expertise for me but I did track down a web page that refers to Ansi.sys and having to install it in the C:\Windows\System32, applicable to these versions: (Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8).
Not sure if that answers your first question though. :shrug:
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Re: Win 8 and ansi

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All Windows versions, including Windows 8, support the UTF-8 (ANSI) code set. Ansi.sys isn't needed for that (it was a device driver for MS-DOS).
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Hans