[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Patches-1256872 ] Unicode support for Win32 (NT) console channels

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Patches item #1256872, was opened at 2005-08-11 20:34
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Category: 27. Channel Types
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Anton Kovalenko (a_kovalenko)
Assigned to: Andreas Kupries (andreas_kupries)
Summary: Unicode support for Win32 (NT) console channels

Initial Comment:
This patch, prepared agains the recent TCL8.5 CVS,
makes the Win32 console channel driver use ReadConsoleW
and WriteConsoleW where these functions are available
(NT/2k/XP/2003), without (hopefully) breaking anything
on other systems. TclWinOpenConsoleChannel will set the
channel encoding to unicode when appropriate; thus all
the applications that do gets/puts on the console,
without resetting its options, will not notice any
difference.

Please let me know if such a change requires a TIP to
be included.

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>Comment By: Anton Kovalenko (a_kovalenko)
Date: 2005-08-11 22:19

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Tcl RFE 491789 is unrelated to this patch (though I was
thinking, while submitting this patch, about GetCommandLineW
as a next step to better unicode support).

This patch is not about command-line parameters, it's about
console I/O (i.e stdin, stdout, and stderr of tclsh.exe). As
TCL already has a separate channel driver for Win32 console,
the required changes are minimal and they don't affect
neither TCL API nor signature of Tcl_Main.

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Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2005-08-11 21:51

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How does is this patch related to
Tcl RFE 491789 ?

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