On 04/11/2010 02:35, David Sankel wrote:
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Simon Marlow <marlo...@gmail.com
<mailto:marlo...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 03/11/2010 10:36, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello Max,
Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 1:26:50 PM, you wrote:
1. You need to use "chcp 65001" to set the console code page
to UTF8
2. It is very likely that your Windows console won't have
the fonts
required to actually make sense of the output. Pipe the
output to
foo.txt. If you open this file in notepad you will see the
correct
characters show up.
it will work even without chcp. afaik nor ghc nor windows
adjusts text
being output to current console codepage
GHC certainly does. We use GetConsoleCP() when deciding what code
page to use by default - see libraries/base/GHC/IO/Encoding/CodePage.hs.
This can actually be quite helpful. I've discovered that if you have a
console set to code page 65001 (UTF-8) and use WriteConsoleA (the
non-wide version) with UTF-8 encoded strings, the console displays the
text properly!
So the solution seems to be, when outputting to a utf8 console use
WriteConsoleA.
We need someone to rewrite the IO library backend for Win32. Currently
it is going via the msvcrt POSIX emulation layer, i.e. using write() and
pseudo-file-descriptors. More than a few problems have been caused by
this, and it's totally unnecessary except that we get to share some code
between the POSIX and Windows backends. We ought to be using the native
Win32 APIs and HANDLE directly, then we could use WriteConsoleA.
This is a prerequisite for having a decent Win32 implementation of the
IO manager too, and we could get proper support for hGetNonBlocking.
We're not talking about a lot of code here - basically a replacement for
the modules GHC.IO.FD and GHC.IO.Handle.FD (about 1000 lines in total).
Some of the low-level Win32 support might have to be imported from the
Win32 package though. Any volunteers?
Cheers,
Simon
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