Printing international characters on Windows

Part of TutorialAdvanced

Description

This Windows specific code, allows you to print international characters (Greek for instance) on the non UTF-8 Windows console.

Example

import std.c.stdio;
import std.c.windows.windows;

extern (Windows) {
    export BOOL CharToOemW(
            LPCWSTR lpszSrc, // string to translate
            LPSTR lpszDst // translated string
    );
}

void main()
{
    wchar[] s = "Χαίρετε!"; //Greek salutation
    echo(s); // call our function
}

void echo(wchar[] s)
{
    char[] t = new char[s.length];
    CharToOemW(s, t); // calling Windows API function
    puts(t); // printing translated string
}

Compile Instructions

Link to kernel32.lib when compiling.

Source

• Posted by psychotic
• Based on http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/12787.html.

Link	http://www.dsource.org/tutorials/index.php?show_example=147
Posted by	Anonymous