Re: [Iup-users] IupConfig

[Andrew R. <aro...@co...>]

My final answer (updated):



The only program that seemed to work on my system was setlocale_utf8_vc15.exe,
but it while it didn't fail, it also didn't exactly pass because it returns a
string for a locale that doesn't exist in any current Microsoft documentation:
English_United States.utf8. I think it might actually be documented in some
old MSDOS documentation, as it might be a poorly documented representation of
an en-US locale with the OEM console page set to UTF8 by chcp, hence the dot
UTF8 instead of a simple UTF8 for locale. Knowing UTF8, that doesn't really
mean anything anyways, since UTF8 is ASCII/ANSI/English backwards compatible
because UTF8 is byte oriented (as is GB18030, by the way).


                    en-US    en_US   US      .UTF8   Version          Well
Documented?
POCRT      Fail    Fail   Pass  Fail   8.0.2.0          N/A
MSVCRT     Fail    Fail   Pass  Fail   7.0.7601.17744   No
UCRTBASE   Pass    Fail   Fail  Fail   10.0.14393.2247  Yes
SLL        Pass    Fail   Fail  Sorta  ??               No


NOTE 1: Microsoft never said they supported UTF-8 as a locale, in fact they
said they would for the first time ever start supporting it with the May of
2020 release of Win10.

NOTE 2: Could not confirm rumors that UTF-8 can be set as a locale.

NOTE 3: en_US is for Linux, not Windows.

NOTE 4: setlocale() is documented to only affect numeric, monetary, time, and
the Windows legacy collate functions. It does not affect translation or file
functions.

NOTE 5: Ucrtbase will consistently crash if either category or locale is
invalid. This is a minor issue, although none of the other versions of
setlocale() will crash, but instead will return NULL.


NOTE 6: chcp doesn't work with gui programs, so none of this is a valid test
for any IUP apps


NOTE 7: The comment about ".UTF8" being valid on the Microsoft website for
setlocale() does not appear valid, reproducible,  nor is it officially
recognized by Microsoft. It should be ignored as all fake news is.

Best Regards,
Andres