You may find the "SetTextCodePage" procedure useful when it comes to
setting the code page for a Windows console.
e.g. SetTextCodePage(stdout,cp_utf8);
See also
https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/settextcodepage.html
On 22/02/18 11:21, Luca Olivetti via Lazarus wrote:
Lazarus 1.8.0, fpc 3.0.4, windows application (with "win32 gui
application unchecked") or console application (using LazUTF8).
File encoding utf-8 without bom.
writeln('áéí')
produces garbage, contrary to what's said in
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Unicode_Support_in_Lazarus#Writing_to_console
using {$codepage utf8} (or utf-8 with bom) fixes it, but I'm not sure
it's recommended to do so:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Unicode_Support_in_Lazarus#String_Literals
The strange thing is that:
procedure w(const s:string);
begin
writeln(s);
end;
w('áéí')
also gives the correct output.
Why? After all I'm using the same string literal.
I suppose there's some underlying automatic conversion going on, but
it's very confusing.
Bye
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