Re: Unicode windows console output.

It is possible to output some non Latin1 symbols if you use the wide string API but not all of them. Basically the console supports all European language but nothing else - Latin, Cyrillic and Greek. 2010/11/2 David Sankel :

Is there a ghc "wontfix" bug ticket for this? Perhaps we can make a small C test case and send it to the Microsoft people. Some[1] are reporting success with Unicode console output. David

[1] http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/unicode_console_output.aspx

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Krasimir Angelov wrote:

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This is evidence for the broken Unicode support in the Windows terminal and not a problem with GHC. I experienced the same many times.

2010/11/2 David Sankel :

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On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:20 PM, David Sankel wrote:

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Hello all, I'm attempting to output some Unicode on the windows console. I set my windows console code page to utf-8 using "chcp 65001". The program:

-- Test.hs main = putStr "λ.x→x"

The output of `runghc Test.hs`:

λ.x→xxxx

From within ghci, typing `main`:

λ*** Exception: <stdout>: hPutChar: permission denied (Permission denied)

I suspect both of these outputs are evidence of bugs. Might I be doing something wrong? (aside from using windows ;))

I forgot to mention that I'm using Windows XP with ghc 6.12.3.

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