On 25 Jun 10, at 8:07, Noel and Marie wrote:
Hi Noel, > Thanks Tomas. I didn't see your promise to look at the problem. Sorry, it took somewhat longer, but the results are here: 1) It works as expected if _not_ using unit Crt. 2) There is a bug in implementation of unit Crt for Windows. This bug stems from May 2006 already and it was a result of a patch from Maxim Ganetsky trying to fix bug #6785 (http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=6785). Since that patch, all output with unit Crt uses the so called ANSI code page under Windows which is IMHO wrong. I've added a comment to bug #6785 and filed a new bug report (http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=16846) - you may want to monitor that one in order to be notified when it gets fixed. Until the bug is fixed, there are several possible solutions for you, e.g.: - You may comment line 699 (and preferably also line 743) in your local copy of rtl/win/crt.pp (trunk version from SVN) and recompile RTL (and packages). That isn't a complete fix, but it should probably be sufficient for your needs. - If you only need to output this one particular character, you may do so using the particular Win32 API directly. Admittedly not very nice and certainly not portable, but at least a possible workaround. - If you don't need unit Crt, you may simply remove it from your uses clause. > I have just relied on email replies for comments etc. How do I look at all > comments, other questions, etc on the Web? Sorry, I'm not sure if I understand this question. Do you refer to an archive of this mailing list? If so, you can find a link on the FPC WWW pages (under Mailing lists). Hope this helps Tomas > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tomas Hajny" <xhaj...@hajny.biz> > To: "FPC-Pascal users discussions" <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:59 PM > Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] question about changing default ASCII table in the > fpc 2.2.0 IDE > > > On Thu, June 24, 2010 06:41, Noel and Marie wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I would like to print a square root symbol using write(chr(251)); as I > > could before SP3 for XP was installed on my PC. > > > > Currently am getting a superscript 1 rather than the square root symbol > > from > > write(chr(251)). > > > > I've tried the following kind suggestions of Tomas Hajny, unfortunately > > without success: > > > > 1. In a command shell I entered > > CHCP 437 and then ran the program > > > > 2. Modified the source code to include the Windows unit and added line > > setConsoleOutputCP(437);, > > compiled and then ran the program. > > > > > > I examined the registry settings in directory Codepage. > > Name Data > > (default ) (value not set) > > ... > > ACP 1252 > > MACCP 10000 > > OEMCP 850 > > OEMHAL vgaoem.fon > > > > Changed OEMCP to 437 and got an accented 'u'. Then restored > > the system. > > > > I wonder if anyone can suggest a solution to the problem. > > I still intend to have a look at it (as promised previously), just had no > time for that (if noone else provides answer till then). > > Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
