[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Feature Requests-2906752 ] Retrieving current OEM encoding

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Feature Requests item #2906752, was opened at 2009-12-01 13:02
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Category: 10. Objects
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 7
Private: No
Submitted By: Pawel Pawlak (mickey_knox)
Assigned to: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Summary: Retrieving current OEM encoding

Initial Comment:
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).

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>Comment By: Donal K. Fellows (dkf)
Date: 2009-12-02 16:42

Message:
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.

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