Hey Tim,
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 10:34 PM, timothy adigun <2teezp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi bOB,
> Please check my comments below
>
> It is very possible, just in 3 steps.
>
> Here is what you had always wanted to do:
> 1. Open up your command Prompt, then
>
> 2. You will need to change your cmd font to "Lucida Console", because
> other fonts don't contain all the codepoints.
> So, to do this, Right-click on the bar of the cmd Prompt, click on
> Properties, then on Fonts tab, select "Lucida Console",
Based on my searching, I had already done steps 1) and 2). These
change the default values of the command console.
>
> 3. Ordinarily, if you type "chcp" on the cmd Prompt, you will get this :
> Active code page: 850
> The current Active code. To display Unicode however, you will need to change
> that to 65001.
> So, you might change it by typing "chcp 65001" on your cmd Prompt or do it
> in your Perl script, using a backtick.
>
> Here is how your script now looks:
>
> use warnings;
> use strict;
> use utf8;
>
> `chcp 65001`;
> binmode STDOUT, ":encoding(UTF-8)";
> print "\x{03B1}\x{03C9}\n";
If you recall my original posting, I essentially did what you just
said in step 3) except that I used system() instead of the backticks.
What I would like to do is make chcp 65001 the default behavior of the
command console without having to either retype it manually or place
it in each and every script for each time I open the command prompt.
Secondarily, I would like to eliminate what appears to be Windows
informational message of "Active code page: 65001". But as I said,
unless you or someone else knows something different to do, there is
no way to permanently change the default behavior of the command
prompt on my system. Is it clear what I am actually asking?
One thing you add above, "use strict;": I have not reached this in my
book yet. Is this something you would recommend me to add to my
scripts routinely?
Thanks!
boB
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