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

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Tue Jul 9 14:38:36 CEST 2013


In our previous episode, Tomas Hajny said:
> >> 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?

Dos compatibility has waned somewhat. I would assume a new console type
wouldn't be OEM.  And probably even the 8-bit api would be a compatibility
layer over the underlaying 16-bit api.





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