Am Sun, 15 Dec 2013 11:19:43 +0100 schrieb "Siavash Babaei" <[email protected]>:
> Yes and No: I kind of knew that and just wanted to make sure. > Thank you for confirming it. On the other hand, when I define a > string variable and set it to say, "سلام", and want to output it > to the CMD (write, writeln, writef), what I get is gibberish and > CMD is set correctly BTW. If you use an older version of Windows you might have to change the console font to "Lucida" I think it was to support a wider range of characters. Then there is a reason why Java has a complicated encoding system for console output. While on Linux the console uses UTF-8 (in line with D) for a few years now, the Windows console usually expects Latin-1 or UTF-16. writeln() doesn't take this into consideration and I had issues even with German umlauts on Windows. It worked best when I used the Windows API directly to write UTF-16 to the console, prefixed with a byte-order-mark. That together with switching the console font to Lucida, should give you proper printing of non-ASCII characters. If this sounds overly complicated, take a look at Java: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2415597/java-how-to-detect-and-change-encoding-of-system-console The result is different on Windows, Linux and even Mac unless you work closely with the specific console implementation of the operating system. A general "writeln" doesn't cut it unless you are on Linux or write to files or "pipe" the output to another program understanding UTF-8. -- Marco
