TRANSLATE_TO_ANSI

This variable has meaning only on graphical systems such as Windows. It is used only if:

you are using the graphical system's font to accept data, and
you store your data using the OEM character set. (For example, Vision files may contain OEM characters if they were created using a DOS runtime.)

Set the variable TRANSLATE_TO_ANSI to "1" to turn on a character set translator. Then, if you use the graphical system's font for accepting data, the runtime translates from one character set to the other for you. Data that is accepted from the screen is translated into the OEM character set before it is stored on disk. Data stored in the OEM character set is translated to the ANSI character set before it is displayed on screen. This also applies to the printer, if you are using Windows spooling and the printer uses an ANSI font.

Setting TRANSLATE_TO_ANSI to "0" (default) turns off the translation process.

Note: The ANSI and OEM representations of the following standard English characters are identical:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789 <space> ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ \ ] ^ _ ` { | } ~

Only the representations of accented vowels and other special or non-English characters are different.