On 10 May 2017 at 08:24, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote:

> Finally, to the question: If I am planning to inter-operate with C and/or
> UNIX, should I use CODEPAGE(1047) instead of the default of 1140 (which is
> CP-37 with Euro). I am thinking this would likely be necessary if I use
> some of the C language subroutines which deal with regular expressions.
> This is due to the "wrong" encoding of "[" "]" and others in CP-37.
>

CP 1140 is essentially 037+Euro. I think you want CP 924, which is 1047+Euro.
(Both the "with Euro" CPs also have, so as to encode the same set of
characters as ISO 8859-15, a small number of additional characters for
French and some other Western European languages.)

Tony H.

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