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Re: console output in 8.4.12 on windows
From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl@turtle-trading.net>
Date: Fri Dec 30 2005 - 03:02:35 CET
Date: Fri Dec 30 2005 - 03:02:35 CET
Hi David,
David Gravereaux writes:
> static BOOL
> writeConsoleBytes(
> [...]
> sscanf(Tcl_DStringValue(&dstr), "cp%d", &codepage);
This should do error checking, in case the programmer has set
something like Latin-9, thinking s/he is on Unix.
> SetConsoleCP(codepage);
This is unnecessary. SetConsoleCP() is only for input. You want to
use SetConsoleCP() for reading the console and SetConsoleOutputCP()
for writing.
> SetConsoleOutputCP(codepage);
benny
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:09:43 2006