Tue Aug 07 13:01:13 2012: Request 78820 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by SHAY
Queue: Win32
Subject: Add Win32::GetACP and Win32::GetOEMCP functions
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Owner: Nobody
Requestors: j...@cpan.org
Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78820 >The attached patch (against Win32-0.44) adds interfaces to GetACP() and GetOEMCP(). However, they actually return information about the operating system defaults, so GetOEMCP() doesn't get the correct value of a Command Prompt's code page if you've changed it from its initial default value using (e.g.) "mode con cp select=...". The patch therefore adds GetConsoleCP() and GetConsoleOutputCP() as well. The latter is what you need to correctly get the current console's output code page. The patch also adds SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP(), since they can be very useful too. For example, in the core perl t/op/magic.t script, which started all this for me, it is now possible to set the console's output code page to match perl's code page (the Windows ANSI code page) and thus avoid the need to convert the encoding of data read from the console (which was originally going to be my approach).
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