Text file encoding question

February 26th, 2003

When I select save as in MS office, and I want to save in text format (yes, i know i loose all those formatting), it prompts me with an option to save in "Windows (Default)", "MS-DOS", and "Other encoding" with a list to choose from. My question in saving text documents is what is the difference between saving in windows encoded and in MS-DOS encoded format?

February 27th, 2003

try looking here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...tml/68t6_1.asp

Kind regards,
Willem Moolenaar

zyfos · February 27th, 2003

This is just a guess, but I think that windows text format might be able to use a larger character set. The MS-DOS text set has 256 possible characters. Windows text set probably has more characters than that (like stuff in the Character Map prog thingy).

February 26th, 2003	Top \| #1
omega2 Unregistered Posts: n/a	Text file encoding question When I select save as in MS office, and I want to save in text format (yes, i know i loose all those formatting), it prompts me with an option to save in "Windows (Default)", "MS-DOS", and "Other encoding" with a list to choose from. My question in saving text documents is what is the difference between saving in windows encoded and in MS-DOS encoded format?

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February 27th, 2003	Top \| #2
eNuffSaid Unregistered Posts: n/a	try looking here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...tml/68t6_1.asp Kind regards, Willem Moolenaar

February 27th, 2003	Top \| #3
zyfos Resurrected Joined: July 2002 Posts: 236 Reputation: 0 Power: 120	This is just a guess, but I think that windows text format might be able to use a larger character set. The MS-DOS text set has 256 possible characters. Windows text set probably has more characters than that (like stuff in the Character Map prog thingy).