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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> True.  I wonder what the vista console defaults to?  Are they still using 
> local code pages or are they using UTF-8 or UTF-16 (perhaps more likely)
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Mine defaults to 850.  (Strange - British installations of MS-DOS back in 
the day always default to 437 as far as my experience goes.  Sometimes under 
Win9x, you would get the anomaly of 437 in full screen mode, but a console 
font in windowed mode that's set up for 850.)  But having it use UTF-16 
would break far too many programs.  There is, however, a function 
ReadConsoleW, which reads characters in UTF-16 regardless of the active code 
page.  But it doesn't work if stdin is redirected.

But I also found that ReadFile doesn't handle UTF-8 console input properly. 
Look at the way my library uses the two functions, each to get around the 
problems with the other depending on circumstance.

Stewart.

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