• "Simon Buchan" <currently no.where> Dec 21 2004
• "Simon Buchan" <currently no.where> Dec 21 2004
• Roberto Mariottini <Roberto_member pathlink.com> Dec 22 2004
• "Simon Buchan" <currently no.where> Dec 22 2004
• Geoff Hickey <ardri comcast.net> Dec 22 2004

The console command chcp can change the current console's codepage, meaning
chcp 65001 will tell the console to use UTF-8. Make sure you arn't using
raster fonts!
(/me makes "whee!" noises while running around in circles)

-- 
"Unhappy Microsoft customers have a funny way of becoming Linux,
Salesforce.com and Oracle customers." - www.microsoft-watch.com:
"The Year in Review: Microsoft Opens Up"
--
"I plan on at least one critical patch every month, and I haven't been  
disappointed."
- Adam Hansen, manager of security at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
(Quote from http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1736104,00.asp)
--
"It's been a challenge to "reteach or retrain" Web users to pay for  
content, said Pizey"
-Wired website: "The Incredible Shrinking Comic"

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 22:41:40 +1300, Simon Buchan <currently no.where>  
wrote:

 The console command chcp can change the current console's codepage,  
 meaning
 chcp 65001 will tell the console to use UTF-8. Make sure you arn't using
 raster fonts!
 (/me makes "whee!" noises while running around in circles)


Although it seems it is an error if you write when not using raster fonts?
i.e. It will write fine to raster fonts, then be fine when you change it
to lucidia console (and display it correctly!) but error out if it was  
written
while in lucidia console. WTF?

Gives "Unable to write to stream" after writing and simply ignores
special char's.
Anyone know what's going on?

-- 
"Unhappy Microsoft customers have a funny way of becoming Linux,
Salesforce.com and Oracle customers." - www.microsoft-watch.com:
"The Year in Review: Microsoft Opens Up"
--
"I plan on at least one critical patch every month, and I haven't been  
disappointed."
- Adam Hansen, manager of security at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
(Quote from http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1736104,00.asp)
--
"It's been a challenge to "reteach or retrain" Web users to pay for  
content, said Pizey"
-Wired website: "The Incredible Shrinking Comic"

In article <opsjcqjqqhjccy7t simon.mshome.net>, Simon Buchan says...
The console command chcp can change the current console's codepage, meaning
chcp 65001 will tell the console to use UTF-8. Make sure you arn't using
raster fonts!
(/me makes "whee!" noises while running around in circles)


This gives even strabger results: trying to writef an UTF-8 string terminates
the program.

See the following transcript for details:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
C:\Down\dlang>ver

Microsoft Windows XP [Versione 5.1.2600]

C:\Down\dlang>chcp 850
Tabella codici attiva: 850

C:\Down\dlang>type testUTF.d
´╗┐import std.stdio;
import std.c.stdio;
import std.c.windows.windows;

extern (Windows)
{
export BOOL CharToOemW(
LPCWSTR lpszSrc,  // string to translate
LPSTR lpszDst     // translated string
);
}

int main()
{
puts("-- untranslated --");
puts("├ñ├Â├╝├ƒ├ä├û├£");
writef("├ñ├Â├╝├ƒ├ä├û├£\n");

puts("-- translated --");
wchar[] mess = "├ñ├Â├╝├ƒ├ä├û├£";
char[] OEMmess = new char[mess.length];
CharToOemW(mess, OEMmess);
puts(OEMmess);
writef(OEMmess);

return 0;
}
C:\Down\dlang>testUTF.exe
-- untranslated --
├ñ├Â├╝├ƒ├ä├û├£
├ñ├Â├╝├ƒ├ä├û├£
-- translated --
äöüßÄÖÜ
Error: invalid UTF-8 sequence

C:\Down\dlang>chcp 65001
Tabella codici attiva: 65001

C:\Down\dlang>type testUTF.d
import std.stdio;
import std.c.stdio;
import std.c.windows.windows;

extern (Windows)
{
export BOOL CharToOemW(
LPCWSTR lpszSrc,  // string to translate
LPSTR lpszDst     // translated string
);
}

int main()
{
puts("-- untranslated --");
puts("äöüßÄÖÜ");
writef("äöüßÄÖÜ\n");

puts("-- translated --");
wchar[] mess = "äöüßÄÖÜ";
char[] OEMmess = new char[mess.length];
CharToOemW(mess, OEMmess);
puts(OEMmess);
writef(OEMmess);

return 0;
}
C:\Down\dlang>testUTF.exe
-- untranslated --
äöüßÄÖÜ

C:\Down\dlang>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Ciao

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:46:27 +0000 (UTC), Roberto Mariottini  
<Roberto_member pathlink.com> wrote:

 In article <opsjcqjqqhjccy7t simon.mshome.net>, Simon Buchan says...
 The console command chcp can change the current console's codepage,  
 meaning
 chcp 65001 will tell the console to use UTF-8. Make sure you arn't using
 raster fonts!
 (/me makes "whee!" noises while running around in circles)


 This gives even strabger results: trying to writef an UTF-8 string  
 terminates
 the program.

 See the following transcript for details:

 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 C:\Down\dlang>ver

 Microsoft Windows XP [Versione 5.1.2600]

 C:\Down\dlang>chcp 850
 Tabella codici attiva: 850

 C:\Down\dlang>type testUTF.d
 �╗┐import std.stdio;
 import std.c.stdio;
 import std.c.windows.windows;

 extern (Windows)
 {
 export BOOL CharToOemW(
 LPCWSTR lpszSrc,  // string to translate
 LPSTR lpszDst     // translated string
 );
 }

 int main()
 {
 puts("-- untranslated --");
 puts("├�├�├╝├�├�├�├�");
 writef("├�├�├╝├�├�├�├�\n");

 puts("-- translated --");
 wchar[] mess =  
 "├�├�├╝├�├�├�├�";
 char[] OEMmess = new char[mess.length];
 CharToOemW(mess, OEMmess);
 puts(OEMmess);
 writef(OEMmess);

 return 0;
 }
 C:\Down\dlang>testUTF.exe
 -- untranslated --
 ├�├�├╝├�├�├�├�
 ├�├�├╝├�├�├�├�
 -- translated --
 �������
 Error: invalid UTF-8 sequence

 C:\Down\dlang>chcp 65001
 Tabella codici attiva: 65001

 C:\Down\dlang>type testUTF.d
 import std.stdio;
 import std.c.stdio;
 import std.c.windows.windows;

 extern (Windows)
 {
 export BOOL CharToOemW(
 LPCWSTR lpszSrc,  // string to translate
 LPSTR lpszDst     // translated string
 );
 }

 int main()
 {
 puts("-- untranslated --");
 puts("�������");
 writef("�������\n");

 puts("-- translated --");
 wchar[] mess = "�������";
 char[] OEMmess = new char[mess.length];
 CharToOemW(mess, OEMmess);
 puts(OEMmess);
 writef(OEMmess);

 return 0;
 }
 C:\Down\dlang>testUTF.exe
 -- untranslated --
 �������

 C:\Down\dlang>
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------

 Ciao


See my above reply: I may have been too hasty...
This may have something to do with surrogates, etc...
Putting cmd.exe in raster fonts, running the program, then
changeing the font to lucidia displays the UTF correctly,
but changing it back results in corruption. WTF?

Does anyone know of a completly seperate to window command shell?
I suppose one could use MSYS (or MinGW?) or something...

-- 
"Unhappy Microsoft customers have a funny way of becoming Linux,
Salesforce.com and Oracle customers." - www.microsoft-watch.com:
"The Year in Review: Microsoft Opens Up"
--
"I plan on at least one critical patch every month, and I haven't been  
disappointed."
- Adam Hansen, manager of security at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
(Quote from http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1736104,00.asp)
--
"It's been a challenge to "reteach or retrain" Web users to pay for  
content, said Pizey"
-Wired website: "The Incredible Shrinking Comic"

 
 Does anyone know of a completly seperate to window command shell?
 I suppose one could use MSYS (or MinGW?) or something...
 


4NT might work. You can download it here: ftp://jpsoft.com/4nt/. It's 
not free, but there's a trial download.

I'm not a 4NT user myself, but quite a few programmers I know are. I 
have no idea if it supports UTF-8. It does support Unicode, but that 
might just mean UTF-16.

- Geoff Hickey