New implementation of pseudo console support (experimental)

[Takashi Yano]

On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 14:49:04 +0200 (CEST)
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi Takashi,
> 
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2020, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:41:56 +0200
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > Guys,
> > >
> > > On Aug 19 20:39, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 20:57:18 +0900
> > > > > Adapted to the current git head.
> > > >
> > > > Aligned the timing of seup_locale () call with the recent pty change.
> > >
> > > Shall we release 3.1.7 as bugfix release and then merge this patch
> > > and bump to 3.2.0?
> >
> > It might be time to do so. Thanks.
> 
> Sorry to latch onto this thread with something slightly different, but we
> do see pretty serious encoding problems (both with and without
> `CYGWIN=disable_pcon`) in the Git for Windows and the MSYS2 projects. For
> example, in https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/1974 the
> following issue was reported. If you compile a _MINGW_ program from this
> source code:
> 
> -- snip --
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int main(){
>   puts("Привет мир! Hello world!");
>   return 0;
> }
> -- snap --
> 
> and then execute it, you will see this output:
> 
> -- snip --
> Привет мир! Hello world!
> -- snap --

I guess your program (binary exe) does not work as you expect
in command prompt as well. If you want to use UTF-8 coding in
output, you should add SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8) call befere
puts().

> Piping the output through `cat.exe` "fixes" the issue. I tried both with
> v3.1.7 and with the tip of the main branch. Could I ask you to have a look
> at this?
> 
> Ciao,
> Johannes


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Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>