First of all, as I always suggest, Use Unicode when practical :) Then you don't run into these kinds of problems. The "thing" to remember about code pages in general is that they were an early way to get characters to display in a readable way on CRT...

First of all, remember to Use Unicode when practical :) Sometimes older applications don't allow Unicode, although they usually then don't allow Microsoft code pages as well (usually being ASCII or Latin-1, which are different). But when you do have...