Re: [Mingw-users] putwchar not working

[Yongwei Wu <wuy...@gm...>]

On 9 September 2016 at 00:17, Eli Zaretskii <el...@gn...> wrote:
>> From: Yongwei Wu <wuy...@gm...>
>> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 10:52:46 +0800
>>
>> > AFAIK, the only reliable way of writing non-ASCII text to the Windows
>> > console is by using WriteConsoleW.  Did you try that?
>>
>> I have many ways to work around the issue for myself. However, I do
>> not have time to fix all the applications that are compilable by
>> MinGW. The only practical solutions (though still difficult), IMHO,
>> are:
>>
>> * Make Microsoft fix the issue in MSVCRT
>> * Make MinGW not use MSVCRT for I/O functions
>
> My point is whatever you do, it won't solve the problem completely.
> Even if putwchar will eventually do what the MS VS static libraries
> do, some basic problem will remain.  For example, you cannot display
> anything with putwchar that is beyond the BMP, because a single
> wchar_t argument can only express characters in the BMP.  And that is
> only one of the fundamental problems with non-ASCII support on the
> Windows console.

Not supporting characters beyond the BMP does not look a big problem
to me. To me, the big problem is anything compiled by MinGW is broken
in non-ASCII support, and, in comparison, MSVC looks much better....

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