Re: [icu-support] Windows codepage 720

[George R. <gr...@us...>]

If you're using the console, then using GetConsoleOutputCP() or GetOEMCP() =

would be okay depending on what you're doing.

When using Windows, it's usually better to prefix with "windows-" instead=20
of "cp".  The "cp" prefix is an ambiguous prefix.  Depending on the=20
source, it can either mean ibm-* or windows-*.  In this case, you want=20
windows-720.

The real fix for this problem is to add the conversion table to your copy=20
of ICU.  You can download ICU from subversion or CVS, and add the table to =

your copy of ICU.=20

You can use this table
http://dev.icu-project.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/charset/data/ucm/windows-720=
-2000.ucm?view=3Dco
... and you can use these instructions for adding the table.
http://icu.sourceforge.net/userguide/icudata.html#custom=5Fdata=5Flibrary

George Rhoten
IBM Globalization Center of Competency/ICU  San Jos=E9, CA, USA
http://www.icu-project.org/
http://icu.sourceforge.net/



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I have been trying to trace a problem in our BiDi support and have=20
discovered that we're hitting trouble trying to get a codepage for=20
windows-720... We ask windows for it's codepage using GetConsoleOutputCP() =

and then ask the ICU to find us a converter for it (we try to prepend "cp" =

to it first).  The ICU tells us that no such codepage exists.=20

1. Should windows XP be telling us something else (like 1256)?=20
2. Should we not be using GetConsoleOutputCP()?=20

if we do a chcp 1256 beforehand it works, but we'd prefer not to have to=20
tell our customers that their environment is wrong :-(=20

cheers,=20
Andreas=20
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