Displaying non UTF-8 8 bit character codes with writefln()

[Stewart Gordon]

"Regan Heath" <regan at netmail.co.nz> wrote in message 
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> 1. avoid the valid utf-8 cahracter check.
> 2. make the console display utf-8 correctly.
>
> To achive #1 you've gotta use printf, eg.
>   printf("%c\n", 230);

No I gottan't.  I could use putchar, puts or OutputStream.writeString for 
example.

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>> This misses the point slightly.  The user shouldn't have to change the 
>> codepage just to get someone else's application to work properly.
>
> Sadly, if the application is outputting UTF-8 you don't have a choice.

But how many DOS or Windows console apps in the real world output UTF-8? 
Presumably not many, considering that no versions of DOS and only a few 
versions of Windows support it.  There's also a causal loop in that even 
modern Windows versions don't come with the console code page set to 65001 
by default.  I don't know what is likely to break this loop, but I doubt 
that the restrictiveness of one language's standard library is going to do 
it.

>> What you want is my utility library:
>> http://pr.stewartsplace.org.uk/d/sutil/
>
> Cool.  You're converting UTF-8 to the console code page I assume.

Exactly.  (Well, as exactly as is possible under the constraints.)

Stewart.

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