[fpc-pascal] Console Encoding in Windows (Local VS. UTF8)

[Tomas Hajny]

On Tue, July 9, 2013 12:40, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Tomas Hajny said:
>> >> and be done with it?
>> >
>> > I don't know.
>>
>> There is code page 65001 for UTF-8, however I don't know since which
>> version of MS Windows it is supported (and to which extent - e.g.
>> including the console output).
>
> Afaik Windows XP, but there might be font problems on console.

I also thought about mentioning True Type fonts (like Lucida) being a
better option in this case, but then I assumed that with Japanese, this
might be necessary anyway.


>> console using the Windows API call SetConsoleOutputCP, but e.g. our unit
>> Crt currently resets the code page used for output to console to the
>> "main" process code page (as returned by GetACP) on each write and thus
>> ignores the user selection - this will probably change in trunk in the
>> future as part of the Unicode support activities, but the current state
>> is
>> like this.
>
> Keep in mind he is talking powershell, not cmd.exe

I have no experience with powershell yet, but as long as it uses a console
window (albeit designed differently), the launched applications should
behave the same way, shouldn't they?

Tomas