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#572 Retrieving current OEM encoding

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Kevin B KENNY
10. Objects (26)
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2009-12-02
2009-12-01
Pawel Pawlak
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OEM encoding is used on Windows by the console (.bat, .cmd files). If a string contains diacritical characters, it must be converted from ANSI to OEM encoding prior to writing it to a .bat file.

Currently there's no way of getting the current OEM encoding in Tcl.

I suggest extending the "encoding" command to accept the "oem" parameter, that will return the current OEM encoding (just as the "system" parameter returns the current ANSI encoding).

I have no knowledge of OEM encoding on non-Windows systems, so I leave it to the experts (my first thought was it would just return the system encoding).

Discussion

  • Pawel Pawlak

    Pawel Pawlak - 2009-12-01
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  • Donal K. Fellows

    Donal K. Fellows - 2009-12-02
    • labels: 322350 --> 10. Objects
    • assigned_to: nijtmans --> kennykb
     

  • Donal K. Fellows

    Donal K. Fellows - 2009-12-02

    Probably easiest to make a windows-specific "oem" encoding. If such a thing is needed and not covered by one of our existing encodings, that is.