Comment 8 for bug 340394

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Wouter van Heyst (larstiq) wrote : Re: [Bug 340394] Re: redirecting log output to a file produces the wrong encoding on win32

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 01:39:12AM -0000, Martin Pool wrote:
> Thanks Tim.
>
> It looks like that's in IBM-850 (aka cp850), with ü as codepoint 0x81
> and ö as cp 0x94. It may be that cp850 is the right thing to write to
> the terminal but if you're in a utf-8 locale and redirected to a file it
> should probably write utf-8.

Drive-by-bug-commenting: aren't the filesystem encoding and the terminal
encoding seperated in Windows? I recall bialix having trouble in that
area in the past.

Wouter van Heyst