isatty and Pavel stream.d

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Carlos Smith <carlos-smith at sympatico.ca> wrote:

>
> So may be there is a problem with fileno() ??

I have no idea.

>> You mean std.stream?  That's been part of Phobos .. well, forever. At
>> least 5 years anyway.
>
> No, i mean the stream.d that comes in stream.zip from the
> Pavel's site: http://int19h.tamb.ru/files/stream.zip
> His stream library seems different. as, it have functions to
> read Unicode strings from the console. I tried to compile
> it with dmd 1.043 but there are many errors.

std.stream *is* Pavel's code.  That zip is absolutely ancient.  It's
no surprise it doesn't compile.

> I know that function. But it allows to read
> char[] arrays only. (if i read well the declarations).

Sure, but char[] IS Unicode!  It's just UTF-8.

> How do i read wchar[] arrays from the console with it ?

Use std.cstream.din.readLineW() if you want a wchar[] so badly.