Dos Ascii to Windows Ansi or Mac Roman

[Ben Rubinstein]

The 'right' or general way to do this (convert text from one character set to 
another) is I think always to go through Unicode (back in HyperCard days I had 
an external 'viaUnicode' which did exactly this) - this ensures correct 
handling of characters with no mapping.

Since LiveCode has some internal mapping tables for a number of character 
sets, it should be perfectly trivial to do it using
	uniDecode(uniEncode(t, <source charset), <destination charset))

... but unfortunately  RunRev have never fixed the original disastrous 
decision to make the second parameter of both functions a "language name" 
rather than a character set (which of course is what it really is), and to 
make some of these an automatically selected character set, ie "ANSI" or 
"English" selects Windows-1252 on Windows, Mac Roman on Mac, I've no idea what 
it selects on Linux.

So please beg RunRev (I think the voting mechanism has been removed, only 
begging remains to us) to give some attention to
	http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3674

Ben