std.locale

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Rainer Deyke wrote:
> Sergey Gromov wrote:
>> To actually solve this problem the default exception handler must be
>> fixed to convert any UTF-8 into the current OEM code page before
>> printing.  It would also help if default stdin and stdout performed such
>> a conversion.
> 
> No, stdin/stdout *must* perform this conversion.  It is a serious bug if
> they don't.
> 
> The conversion cannot be performed at any other level.  D uses unicode
> internally.  The console uses a specific encoding.  Therefore all data
> passing between D and the console must be encoded/decoded.
> 
> 

What API to use to detect the encoding used by the console?

Andrei