Re: [Mingw-users] Need help with widestrings

[Gisle V. <gv...@br...>]

"LRN" <lr...@gm...> wrote:

> You're trying to output strings encoded in UTF-16 to a text console
> that has your system's default ANSI codepage set up.

I am? Okay, probably. I'm utterly bewildered.

> Speaking of which, you can use SetConsoleCP() to set console output
> codepage to something better, like UTF-8, and write strings encoded
> that way, and they will show up nicely. SetConsoleCP() does not seem
> to be able to set UTF-16 encoding, which means that you can't write
> wide strings into console directly, you need to convert them to UTF-8
> (or whatever you're going to use).
 
Okay, I didn't full grasp that. I will study this confusing subject later. But a
quick call to SetConsoleCP (65001) (i.e. that should be UTF-8 according to
MSDN), didn't improve things.

> I'm not sure why Watcom-compiled code works. Maybe it has its own C
> runtime that handles this problem?

Yeah. I briefly search through it's sources, but failed to find calls to
SetConsoleCP() etc. 

But thank anyway; LRN and esp. Thomas for a very informative replies.

--gv