Net Express is a native Windows application and, like most Windows applications, uses the ANSI standard character set when displaying and saving text.
You can use Net Express to create applications with a character user interface. These applications use the DOS subsystem of Windows, which uses a different character set called OEM. For this reason, you can change the Net Express default editing character set to OEM. When you do this, any changes you make to your source code are displayed and saved in the OEM character set, but no conversion is carried out on existing text. If you open a file that has been saved in ANSI and make changes to it with the OEM setting selected, the file will contain a mixture of ANSI and OEM characters.
The only characters that are affected are those in the "extended set", including diacritical (accented) characters, line drawing characters and some symbols (for example, the British pound sign (£)).
In general, you should use the OEM setting when working on applications with character user interfaces, but remember to switch back to ANSI when working on GUI applications.
Whilst working with Net Express set to OEM:
These issues can be avoided by always using the ANSI setting when creating GUI and Internet applications, and by converting existing OEM files for such applications to ANSI using the supplied utility.
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