Printing Non US-ASCII to the DOS Console

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Why does the DOS console not display 8bit ANSI characters correctly? This example explains the issue...

# file: oemCodePage.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'chilkat'

# (The CkString class is freeware)
myStr = Chilkat::CkString.new()

# A DOS console does NOT display this correctly:
print "é ô à ç\n"

# What we need is the OEM (DOS) code page...
# OEM code pages are listed here:
# http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/intl/unicode_81rn.asp
myStr.appendAnsi("é ô à ç\n")

# Emit the string in the character encoding of your choice:
# ibm850 is the OEM code page for Latin1
print myStr.getEnc("ibm850")

# Chilkat supports these:
# us-ascii
# unicode
# unicodefffe
# iso-8859-1
# iso-8859-2
# iso-8859-3
# iso-8859-4
# iso-8859-5
# iso-8859-6
# iso-8859-7
# iso-8859-8
# iso-8859-9
# iso-8859-13
# iso-8859-15
# windows-874
# windows-1250
# windows-1251
# windows-1252
# windows-1253
# windows-1254
# windows-1255
# windows-1256
# windows-1257
# windows-1258
# utf-7
# utf-8
# utf-32
# utf-32be
# shift_jis
# gb2312
# ks_c_5601-1987
# big5
# iso-2022-jp
# iso-2022-kr
# euc-jp
# euc-kr
# macintosh
# x-mac-japanese
# x-mac-chinesetrad
# x-mac-korean
# x-mac-arabic
# x-mac-hebrew
# x-mac-greek
# x-mac-cyrillic
# x-mac-chinesesimp
# x-mac-romanian
# x-mac-ukrainian
# x-mac-thai
# x-mac-ce
# x-mac-icelandic
# x-mac-turkish
# x-mac-croatian
# asmo-708
# dos-720
# dos-862
# ibm037
# ibm437
# ibm500
# ibm737
# ibm775
# ibm850
# ibm852
# ibm855
# ibm857
# ibm00858
# ibm860
# ibm861
# ibm863
# ibm864
# ibm865
# cp866
# ibm869
# ibm870
# cp875
# koi8-r
# koi8-u