Re: [groff] devutf8 on Windows

[Jeff Conrad]

Eli,

On Sunday, February 24, 2019 7:53 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> It is a known problem with the Windows console: you cannot reliably
> write UTF-8 encoded text to it using the ANSI/Posix emulation
> functions like 'write', 'printf', and their C++ equivalents, and
> expect the correct display, even if you set the codepage to 65001.
> You need to use Unicode (a.k.a. "wide") APIs instead, like WriteFileW
> etc., and you need to feed them text converted into UTF-16.
> 
> This is not a Groff problem, the problem is with the Windows console
> device.

In all the excitement, I somehow missed the obvious question: do you get
similar results if you send grotty output directly to the console,
either with cmd or a *nix-type shell?

Regards,
Jeff