[fpc-pascal] Re: Ido not understand UTF8 in Windows

[Tomas Hajny]

On 19 Feb 10, at 17:27, JoshyFun wrote:
> Friday, February 19, 2010, 3:22:15 AM, you wrote:
> 
> LFDAM> Ok,
> LFDAM> The steps are :
> LFDAM> 1) Change the Font Type at Lucida Console Font :
> LFDAM> http://www.conoce3000.com/fig01.jpg
> LFDAM> 2) Compile the program with fpc 2.4. :
> LFDAM> 3) change to UTF8, with chcp 65001 command
> LFDAM> 4) run the program
> LFDAM> Step 01 to 04 : http://www.conoce3000.com/fig02.jpg
> LFDAM> The source code : http://www.conoce3000.com/Prueba005.pp
> LFDAM> The error ocurred only when use Lucida console Font.
> 
> The problem is that by default in Windows stdout is opened in 7 bits
> mode (text), this means that writeln when emits some information in
> UTF8 with any char >127 will enter in some kind of error reported from
> rtl or Windows kernel.

No, this can't work that way, otherwise output of any accented 
character in one of the Windows codepages would result in the same 
error.

Tomas