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Assunto:  Re: utf-8 stuff..
De:       Nick Boel
Data:     Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:51:18 -0600
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Hey August!

On Mon, Jan 19 2026 08:06:08 -0600, you wrote:

> H:\>busybox sh H:/ $ echo -e "A M\xf8\xf8se once bit my sister ..."
> | iconv -f latin1 -t utf8 A MA,A,se once bit my sister ... H:/ $

While in busybox, what is the output of

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
  
> A limiting factor could certainly be the Font selected for my OpenXP
> terminal. Currently using Lucinda Console TTF

I would say Lucida Console TTF should be okay.

What are you using for your OpenXP terminal?

If it's just a normal Windows command shell/prompt it might be defaulted to CP437 (or maybe CP850 if you're in EU). You can see this by typing "chcp" at your command prompt.

C:\Users\Nick>chcp
Active code page: 437

Or another option, that from what I've read has better UTF-8 support, would be to use PowerShell.

Regards,
Nick

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