• Steve Teale <steve.teale britseyeview.com> Mar 17 2009
• Ary Borenszweig <ary esperanto.org.ar> Mar 17 2009
• Trass3r <mrmocool gmx.de> Mar 17 2009
• Steve Teale <steve.teale britseyeview.com> Mar 17 2009
• Ary Borenszweig <ary esperanto.org.ar> Mar 17 2009
• Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> Mar 17 2009
• Georg Wrede <georg.wrede iki.fi> Mar 17 2009
• Gide Nwawudu <gide btinternet.com> Mar 17 2009
• Steve Teale <steve.teale britseyeview.com> Mar 18 2009
• Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> Mar 18 2009
• "Denis Koroskin" <2korden gmail.com> Mar 17 2009

Steve Teale <steve.teale britseyeview.com> writes:

import std.stdio;

void main()
{
   string s = "Die Walküre";
   writefln(s);
}

Gives error - invalid utf-8 sequence. I pasted the text from a Wiki page that
claims to be utf-8. What's happening?

Ary Borenszweig <ary esperanto.org.ar> writes:

Steve Teale wrote:
 import std.stdio;
 
 void main()
 {
    string s = "Die Walküre";
    writefln(s);
 }
 
 Gives error - invalid utf-8 sequence. I pasted the text from a Wiki page that
claims to be utf-8. What's happening?


Did you save the file as UTF-8?

Trass3r <mrmocool gmx.de> writes:

Ary Borenszweig schrieb:
 Gives error - invalid utf-8 sequence. I pasted the text from a Wiki 
 page that claims to be utf-8. What's happening?


 Did you save the file as UTF-8?


Yeah, you must save the file as UTF-8.

Steve Teale <steve.teale britseyeview.com> writes:

Ary Borenszweig Wrote:

 Steve Teale wrote:
 import std.stdio;
 
 void main()
 {
    string s = "Die Walküre";
    writefln(s);
 }
 
 Gives error - invalid utf-8 sequence. I pasted the text from a Wiki page that
claims to be utf-8. What's happening?


 Did you save the file as UTF-8?


Was not offered the opportunity. I pasted the text from the web page into
Windows Notepad, and saved it - this seemed to me to be as generic as possible
given the facilities I have available. What editor will do the trick? Also, if
I'm using the Windows version of the compiler, shouldn't it be smart enough to
convert the Windows character set to UTF-8?

Ary Borenszweig <ary esperanto.org.ar> writes:

Steve Teale wrote:
 Ary Borenszweig Wrote:
 
 Steve Teale wrote:
 import std.stdio;

 void main()
 {
    string s = "Die Walküre";
    writefln(s);
 }

 Gives error - invalid utf-8 sequence. I pasted the text from a Wiki page that
claims to be utf-8. What's happening?




 Was not offered the opportunity. I pasted the text from the web page into
Windows Notepad, and saved it - this seemed to me to be as generic as possible
given the facilities I have available. What editor will do the trick? Also, if
I'm using the Windows version of the compiler, shouldn't it be smart enough to
convert the Windows character set to UTF-8?


Notepad will do the trick, but you must save it as UTF-8. In the Save As 
dialog select UTF-8 in Encoding.

Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> writes:

Steve Teale wrote:
 Also, if I'm using the Windows version of
 the compiler, shouldn't it be smart enough to convert the Windows
 character set to UTF-8?


The huge problem with code pages is, given a file with some text in it, 
there is NO CLUE what code page the file's text encoding is in. Just 
because dmd is running on Windows is not any reason at all that the 
character set of the file must be the Windows character set.

I ran into this problem all the time with C code.

Georg Wrede <georg.wrede iki.fi> writes:

Steve Teale wrote:
 import std.stdio;
 
 void main()
 {
    string s = "Die Walküre";
    writefln(s);
 }
 
 Gives error - invalid utf-8 sequence. I pasted the text from a Wiki
 page that claims to be utf-8. What's happening?


I pasted your code above and compiled and ran it with no problem.
I'm on linux: Fedora 10, and dmd v2.026.

Gide Nwawudu <gide btinternet.com> writes:

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:48:56 -0400, Steve Teale
<steve.teale britseyeview.com> wrote:

import std.stdio;

void main()
{
   string s = "Die Walküre";
   writefln(s);
}

Gives error - invalid utf-8 sequence. I pasted the text from a Wiki page that
claims to be utf-8. What's happening?


Works for me, you should save the file as UTF-8 and set your codepage
to 65001.
C:\> dmd test.d

C:\> test
Die Walk+?re

C:\>chcp 65001
Active code page: 65001

C:\>test
Die Walküre

Gide

Steve Teale <steve.teale britseyeview.com> writes:

Gide Nwawudu Wrote:

 On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:48:56 -0400, Steve Teale
 <steve.teale britseyeview.com> wrote:
 
import std.stdio;

void main()
{
   string s = "Die Walküre";
   writefln(s);
}

Gives error - invalid utf-8 sequence. I pasted the text from a Wiki page that
claims to be utf-8. What's happening?


 Works for me, you should save the file as UTF-8 and set your codepage
 to 65001.
 C:\> dmd test.d
 
 C:\> test
 Die Walk+?re
 
 C:\>chcp 65001
 Active code page: 65001
 
 C:\>test
 Die Walküre
 
 Gide


Yup, that does it. I'd missed the encoding option in notepad. What were you
running the program in - in a cmd window I see graphics characters.

Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> writes:

Steve Teale wrote:
 Gide Nwawudu Wrote:
 
 On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:48:56 -0400, Steve Teale
 <steve.teale britseyeview.com> wrote:

 import std.stdio;

 void main()
 {
   string s = "Die Walk�re";
   writefln(s);
 }

 Gives error - invalid utf-8 sequence. I pasted the text from a Wiki page that
claims to be utf-8. What's happening?


 to 65001.
 C:\> dmd test.d

 C:\> test
 Die Walk+?re

 C:\>chcp 65001
 Active code page: 65001

 C:\>test
 Die Walk�re

 Gide


 Yup, that does it. I'd missed the encoding option in notepad. What were you
running the program in - in a cmd window I see graphics characters.


You have to configure CMD to use Lucida Console as the font.  Also note
that CMD won't do fallbacks like virtually every other Windows app: if a
character isn't in Lucida Console, you won't see it.

  -- Daniel

"Denis Koroskin" <2korden gmail.com> writes:

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:34:49 +0300, Gide Nwawudu <gide btinternet.com> wrote:

 On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:48:56 -0400, Steve Teale
 <steve.teale britseyeview.com> wrote:

 import std.stdio;

 void main()
 {
   string s = "Die Walküre";
   writefln(s);
 }

 Gives error - invalid utf-8 sequence. I pasted the text from a Wiki  
 page that claims to be utf-8. What's happening?


 Works for me, you should save the file as UTF-8 and set your codepage
 to 65001.
 C:\> dmd test.d

 C:\> test
 Die Walk+?re

 C:\>chcp 65001
 Active code page: 65001

 C:\>test
 Die Walküre

 Gide


I believe Phobos should do it manually.