International Characters Do Not Display Properly from a Full-Screen MS-DOS Session

ID: Q194830

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0, Terminal Server Edition

SYMPTOMS

International characters do not display properly in the full-screen display mode of an MS-DOS session. International characters are displayed correctly in a window.

CAUSE

When a command prompt is run in a full-screen session, the UNICODE characters are not converted to ASCII characters using the ANSI code page loaded at boot time.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition. For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q152734 How to Obtain the Latest Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition. This problem was first corrected in Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition Service Pack 4.

Additional query words: 4.00 wts tse


Keywords          : kbbug4.00 kbfix4.00 TSESP4Fix 
Version           : WinNT:4.0
Platform          : winnt 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: April 9, 1999