[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #50284] Allow using UTF-8 for Command Window on Windows

[Mingye Wang]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50284>

                 Summary: Allow using UTF-8 for Command Window on Windows
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: arthur2e5
            Submitted on: Sun 12 Feb 2017 03:40:53 AM UTC
                Category: GUI
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.2.0
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

Unicode support is becoming increasing useful as writers of certain Octave
packages (like, well, "symbolic") start to use Unicode mathematical symbols in
its help text as well as for output. However, since Octave currently seems to
use the current system code page as opposed to cp65001 (Windows UTF-8) for
output, it may display unreadable mojibake (bug #50283, pre-regression) for
such characters.

(No luck with SetLocale in the launcher VBS. Running chcp 65001 before
spawning the VBS does not work either.)

See also bug #49685.




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