Re: LuaFileSystem on Windows and character sets

[Andrew Wilson <agrwagrw@...>]

To display try chcp 65001, to use UTF-8 you with lfs you probably have
to convert UTF-8 to UTF-16 and then use lfs calls. And nope I haven't
tried any of this.   AGRW

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 1:32 AM, KHMan<keinhong@gmail.com> wrote:
> Andrew Wilson wrote:
>>
>> It seems you need to set current console code page to 65001 using chcp
>> command, see following email discussion.
>>
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/13971.html
>
> Not really IIRC. With "chcp 65001", the console works fine in displaying
> UTF-8, but lfs.dll does not use widechar calls, so it won't work with UTF-8
> filenames and directory names. The Apache Portable Runtime on Win32, for
> example, has to explicitly use the widechar API calls. Are you sure your
> suggestion works?
>
>> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Tuomo Valkonen<tuomov@iki.fi> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there some way to make LuaFileSystem to use UTF-8 on
>>> Windows? Currently it seems to use some character set
>>> (winlatin1?) that can not represent all the characters
>>> in use: string.len of lfs.dir results equals the length
>>> of the string printed on the console, which is full of
>>> question marks for characters not covered by a single
>>> byte. So the results of lfs.dir seem to be full of
>>> non-existent files.
>
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> Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
> Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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