Re: console charset
- Posted by jacques_desch Jan 10, 2010
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I have an entry level question. :-> Whenever I print something onto the screen some special characters are not readable for me. E.g.
puts(1,"Helló világ!") -- means "Hello world" in Hungarian
would appear incorrectly due to the "ó" and "á" characters. I suppose it is because of the codepage differences. But is there a simple way of defining that the script I saved in UTF-8 should print to the console/command line the text as ibm852 charset? I'm equally interested in Win and Linux solution...
Thanks for any tips/hints/ideas in advance!
Salix
On windows there two simple Win32 API functions to convert from/to OEM
CharToOem() http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms647473%28VS.85%29.aspx
OemToChar() http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms647493%28VS.85%29.aspx
This convert from windows codepage to console codepage or the opposite
Jacques
