E.8.6 WIN32 consoles

The console uses a different encoding than GUI applications, changing this to to a Windows encoding (e.g. 1252) is not supported on Win9x/Me. On WinNT (and later) those codepages can be set by first changing the console font to ‘lucida console’, then changing the codepage using ‘chcp 1252’.

Some alternative shells (e.g. MSys’ rxvt or Cygwin’s bash) do a codepage conversion (if correctly set up), so running Aspell inside those shells might be a workaround for Win9x.