reading UTF-8 character from stdin
Serg Gini
kornburn at yandex.ru
Tue Aug 5 15:08:41 UTC 2025
On Tuesday, 5 August 2025 at 13:23:27 UTC, Zoda wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 August 2025 at 12:57:29 UTC, Serg Gini wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 5 August 2025 at 12:15:40 UTC, Zoda wrote:
>>> Hi i need to read exactly one character from stdin, but i
>>> could not found a proper way of doing it, how can i do that?
>>
>> ```d
>> void main()
>> {
>> import std.stdio;
>>
>> char x;
>> readf!"%c"(x);
>> writeln(x);
>> }
>> ```
>
> Sorry but it doesn't work properly in Windows, i tried.
You need then `stdin.readf!" %c"(x);`
It worked for me with `echo "123" | .\app.exe`
But this is the simplest example. Support for different UTF
symbols could require more work
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