how to localize console and GUI apps in Windows
Andrei
aalub at mail.ru
Thu Dec 28 17:56:32 UTC 2017
There is one everlasting problem writing Cyrillic programs in
Windows: Microsoft consequently invented two much different code
pages for Russia and other Cyrillic-alphabet countries: first was
MSDOS-866 (and alike), second Windows-1251. Nowadays MS Windows
uses first code page for console programs, second for GUI
applications, and there always are many workarounds to get proper
translation between them. Mostly a programmer should write
program sources either in one code page for console and other for
GUI, or use .NET, which basically uses UTF8 in sources and makes
seamless translation depending on back end.
In D language which uses only UTF8 for string encoding I cannot
write neither MS866 code page program texts, nor Windows-1251 -
both cases end in a compiler error like "Invalid trailing code
unit" or "Outside Unicode code space". And writing Cyrillic
strings in UTF8 format is fatal for both console and GUI Windows
targets.
My question is: is there any standard means to translate Cyrillic
or any other localized UTF8 strings for console and GUI output in
D libraries. If so - where I can get more information and good
example. Google would not help.
Thanks.
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