Re^4: Encoding problem with function in C library

use warnings; use strict; use open qw/:std :encoding(UTF-8)/; use Win32; Win32::SetConsoleOutputCP(65001); print "\N{U+B1}\N{U+221E}\n";
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That works nicely on Windows 10 and 11. But not on Windows 7, where I find that altering the codepage ostensibly succeeds, but in reality takes no effect.
Perhaps the explanation for that might be found in one of AM's links.
Anyway, I can probably ignore this issue with Windows 7 and earlier. It's unlikely that anyone other than me would ever hit it.

... so unless you've got some other funky Unicode stuff going on, I don't think you'd need to change it back

Yes, I think so. It seems that Win32::SetConsoleOutputCP(65001) sets the codepage for the duration of the program and that should generally be fine, whereas chcp 65001 sets it for the duration of the cmd.exe console (and that's not so acceptable).

Thanks again for the pointers, guys !!

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^5: Encoding problem with function in C library by haukex (Archbishop) on Dec 23, 2022 at 08:40 UTC
It seems that Win32::SetConsoleOutputCP(65001) sets the codepage for the duration of the program As Corion pointed out, that's unfortunately not the case, the change does persist and you'll have to do something in an `END` block like he showed.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: Encoding problem with function in C library by syphilis (Archbishop) on Dec 23, 2022 at 10:12 UTC
As Corion pointed out, that's unfortunately not the case, the change does persist and you'll have to do something in an END block like he showed. Oh ... ok, I'll deal with that. Thanks for the heads up. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^5: Encoding problem with function in C library by hippo (Bishop) on Dec 23, 2022 at 08:16 UTC
Anyway, I can probably ignore this issue with Windows 7 and earlier 7 is already long past standard EoL and goes full EoL on the 10th of January (ie, less than 3 weeks from now) so yes it should definitely just be ignored. 🦛	[reply]
Re^6: Encoding problem with function in C library by syphilis (Archbishop) on Dec 23, 2022 at 10:52 UTC
7 is already long past standard EoL and goes full EoL on the 10th of January Like many of those who experienced Windows Vista, I still have a lot of love for Windows 7 ... for the simple reason that it wasn't Windows Vista ;-) Cheers, Rob	[reply]


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