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Re: Console codepage setting via chcp?
2009/9/24 Corinna Vinschen:
> It allows that at least since W2K, but AFAIR this also worked on NT4.
>
>> (Which btw means that fhandler_console could go back to simply using
>> "ANSI" console I/O functions and let Windows take care of the
>> conversions. Except that CP20932 and eucJP aren't quite the same
>> thing.)
>
> No! ÂWe should not go back to using ANSI functions where we already
> converted to Unicode.
Agreed. Sorry for the pointless aside.
Andy