From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-11-22T23:10:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:33288] Re: Windows Unicode (chcp 65001) Generates incorrect output

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:26 AM, NARUSE, Yui <naruse@airemix.jp> wrote:
> usa is having a fever now, so I reply though I don't remember the detail..
>
> We discussed this problem before to extend writing UTF-8 string to console.
> It uses WriteConsoleW and allows to write strings to console even if its
> encoding is different from locale or the console's codepage.
> (it is the thread of [ruby-dev:35200])
>
> The result is rb_w32_write_console and it is in win32-unicode-test...
> why is it not merged to trunk...?
>
> r17825 and another fixes.
> http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/branches/win32-unicode-test/win32/win32.c?view=log
>

I don't know, but I'll attempt to get those merged and report back.

>
> We use WriteConsoleW only when the output target is console.
>

Now with the code of win32-unicode-test it is clear what was the
intention, but was not using that.

Thank you Yui for your answer.

Will review the win32-unicode-test branch for specific misses and report back.
-- 
Luis Lavena
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