Accented characters in DOS

["Luciano ES" <luc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	Dear fellows,

	Please accept my apologies for this off-topic message. I've looked for help on this in many other places, nobody has been able to help me so far. Besides, this problem affects directly my use of JED because I prefer to use it in DOS rather than Windows, and I suffer a lot with this problem.

	I use several DOS programs and always had a problem with accented characters. I often need to read some output and even, believe me, copy and paste it. It really bothers me when I run shell commands from a text editor that captures the output. It should be *very* useful, but this problem with accented characters really ruins the whole thing.

	My problem is that although I can type all accented characters correctly, they become weird symbols when printed on screen or sent to files or pipes (a.k.a. standard output). I can type all accented characters correctly, except ã and õ; õ becomes the "sigma" symbol, and ã becomes something I can't describe. I can type all others, like á, à, é, ó, ä, ü, ç, even â and ô. I can also type a few special symbols with Alt Gr, although the output of these is not always what my Brazilian ABNT2 keyboard makes me expect.
	Summing up, everything I type into DOS is input correctly, except ã and õ. All accented characters in DOS standard output become weird symbols.

	So, to give you an example, if I open a file or standard input containing: 
	"Isto é só um teste de acentuação"
	the output on screen will be
	"Isto ? s¢ um teste de acentua?Æo"

	I've looked for help elsewhere, but no one has been able to help me. Most of the people I exchange ideas with are native English speakers, and these people don't care much about what happens above ASCII 126. I expect to find people form several countries in this list. Does anybody here have any idea of what I can do to make my DOS console print ASCII > 126 correctly?

	Thank you very much,
	Luciano Espirito Santo
	Santos - SP - Brasil



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