[Issue 1448] UTF-8 output to console is seriously broken

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1448

--- Comment #19 from RazvanN <razvan.nitu1305 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to kinke from comment #18)
> This isn't solved, but would now be solvable with recent Windows versions.
> 
> There are 2 things about this:
> * DMD outputs a mix of UTF-8 and strings in the current codepage, AFAIK
> without setting any console codepage, so DMD output on Windows can be
> garbage. LDC v1.17 fixes this for LDC.

How does LDC solve the problem?

> * User programs writing UTF-8 strings to the console suffer from the same
> issue. This *could* be worked around by setting the console codepage in
> druntime's _d_run_main and resetting it to the original one before
> termination.

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