Re: console output in 8.4.12 on windows

Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for reading it. I only presented the code as an idea.

>
>> SetConsoleCP(codepage);
>
>
> This is unnecessary.

It _is_ needed as the channel encoding works in both directions.

  SetConsoleCP() is only for input. You want to
> use SetConsoleCP() for reading the console and SetConsoleOutputCP()
> for writing.
>
>
>> SetConsoleOutputCP(codepage);
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>
>
> benny
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:09:44 2006