Indeed you CAN print Unicode characters, but not with the normal windows
command prompt, nor with powershell, that is where the problem is, not with
FreePascal. But if you go to the Windows Store and download the free “Windows
Terminal” there you can get it to work.
When you run the windows terminal, you get a powershell window, and ‘+’ gets
you a new powershell window, but you can push the little down arrow next to the
+ and get a Command Prompt… there is a way to make the command prompt the
default in the settings.
If you run your pascal program inside the command prompt window of Windows
terminal, you will find that you get full color Unicode characters.
I just tested it on Windows 10 and the following work:
Writeln('Unicode scalar 1F496: ', #$1F496); // 💖
Writeln('Unicode scalar 1F496: 💖'); //
This one does not work:
Writeln('Unicode scalar 1F496: ', WideChar($1F496)); // 💖
Note that these only work if you do NOT use the CRT unit.
James
From: fpc-pascal <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Hairy
Pixels via fpc-pascal
Sent: Sunday, December 1, 2024 1:14 AM
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Cc: Hairy Pixels <[email protected]>
Subject: [fpc-pascal] Printing unicode characters
ChatGPT is saying I can print unicode scalars like that but i don’t see it
works and no compiler warnings even. Did it make this up or did I do something
wrong?
Writeln('Unicode scalar 1F496: ', #$1F496); // 💖
Writeln('Unicode scalar 1F496: ', WideChar($1F496)); // 💖
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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