Read a unicode character from the terminal

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Sun Apr 1 05:01:45 PDT 2012


On 2012-04-01 00:14, Stewart Gordon wrote:
> On 31/03/2012 16:56, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> How would I read a unicode character from the terminal? I've tried using
>> "std.cstream.din.getc" but it seems to only work for ascii characters.
>> If I try to read
>> and print something that isn't ascii, it just prints a question mark.
>
> What OS are you using?
>
> And what codepage is the console set to?

I'm using Mac OS X and the terminal is set to handle UTF-8.

> You might want to try the console module in my utility library:
>
> http://pr.stewartsplace.org.uk/d/sutil/
>
> (For D1 at the moment, but a D2 version will be available any day now!)
>
> Stewart.

I'll have a look, thanks.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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