On Thursday, 16 May 2019 at 16:49:35 UTC, Alex wrote:
Why not just use u?
It generally works fine on all the other filesystems, which today have mostly standardized on UTF-8.
If that is too much trouble then detect the code page and use u rather than the extended ascii which looks very out of place?
Well, a more correct solution would be to check if we're printing to the Windows console, and use Unicode APIs, which would allow this to work regardless of the current 8-bit codepage. However, this (and your suggestion) are complicated to implement due to reasons related to how tightly Phobos is tied to C's FILE* for file input and output.
