Windows console is broken

[Sergey Gromov]

Vladimir Panteleev Wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:30:48 +0200, Sergey Gromov <snake.scaly at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If a command-line argument to a D program contains a non-ascii
> > character, that argument doesn't get into main().
> If I understood your problem correctly, here's a workaround:
> 
> import std.windows.charset, std.string;
> import std.file;
> 
> void main(char[][] args)
> {
>         // convert from MBS (Windows ANSI encoding) to UTF-8
>         foreach(ref arg;args)
>                 arg = fromMBSz(toStringz(arg));
> 
>         write(args[1], "Hello international world!");
> }

Unfortunately, there is no workaround:

import std.stdio;
void main(string[] args)
{
    writeln("Number of arguments to main: ", args.length);
}

>example ÜÐÜÐ ßÐßÐ
Number of arguments to main: 1

>example mother father
Number of arguments to main: 3

You can do nothing about arguments which are not there.

SnakE