Adding Unicode operators to D

Bill Baxter wbaxter at gmail.com
Fri Oct 24 17:32:36 PDT 2008


On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Sergey Gromov <snake.scaly at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:43:19 +0900,
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 6:37 AM, ore-sama <spam at here.lot> wrote:
>> > Bill Baxter Wrote:
>> >
>> >> (like I haven't been able to figure out how to get the
>> >> DOS console in Windows to display UTF-8)
>> >
>> > Console is a legacy technology (you even still call it "DOS"), why expect features from it?
>>
>> So tell me what the alternative is?  I had trouble with running D
>> tools from a Cygwin shell.  Can't remember if I tried MSYS or not.
>>
>> Anyone using a shell for Windows that works and supports UTF-8 properly?
>
> A regular Windows console supports UTF-8 to some extent:
>
> * Change console font to Lucida Console
> * issue "chcp 65001"
>
> You can even get more fonts into there with a bit of hackery.

I did that but "type <filewith-utf8.txt>"  still prints garbage.

--bb


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