Hi, First, I want thank everyone for taking the time to answer!
2013/7/9 Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> > > On 09 Jul 2013, at 11:02, Noah Silva wrote: > > 1. What encoding "should" I be writing to the terminal? >> > > The console code page. You can get it using the following function: > function GetConsoleOutputCP : UINT; stdcall; external 'kernel32' name > 'GetConsoleOutputCP'; > > I will certainly check this out. On the other hand, it seems that on a Japanese system, it has to either be some form of Unicode or SJIS. (And it almost has to be SJIS since older windows versions didn't support Unicode!). > > from experimenting >> with text files using the cat command in powershell, it seems that local >> ("ANSI") encoding should be used. This makes sense since older versions >> of >> windows only supported local encodings. >> > > The ansi code page is (or at least can be) different, that's the the > result of > function GetACP:UINT; stdcall; external 'kernel32' name 'GetACP'; > > Again I will check this today, but see above. > > 2. Is there any reason why writing out data in the local encoding (with >> write statements, etc.) should get corrupted? For example is some level >> of >> the RTL assuming something about the encoding? (I don't think so, but...) >> > > Not in 2.6.x. In 2.7.x, every ansistring is tagged with a code page (the > ansi code page by default) and the RTL will convert it to the console code > page before writing it. Hmm, so at any rate, I need to support two code paths: 1. Convert it myself if on 2.6 2. Don't convert it if on 2.7 I use UTF8String for everything - I know that it is still just an ANSIString on FPC - but is the codepage set to UTF8 automatically? > > > 3. Is there a way to set the output to UTF8 so I can just write out UTF8 >> and be done with it? >> > > I don't know. > > There is a function to set the output codepage, which someone on this list told me before. Unfortunately, it didn't work, and had bad side-effects (the output window flickers and gets very slow). > > Jonas > Thank you, Noah Silva > ______________________________**_________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - > fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.**org<fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> > http://lists.freepascal.org/**mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal<http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal> >
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