Text file encoding question

[omega2]

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?

 

[eNuffSaid]

try looking here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/off2krk/html/68t6_1.asp

Kind regards,
Willem Moolenaar

 

[zyfos]

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).