Is this ASCII, ANSI, UNICODE or something else?

[ErosOlmi]

Martin,

I'm sorry to ask you to test so many times but this problem is new to me.
Here in my box all seems working fine but in my computer I was using a truetype font for console output: LucidaConsole.

Can you be so kind to run the following script.
[code=thinbasic]
uses "console"

printl "Starting code page...........: ", console_getoutputcp
printl "Testing string with this CP..: ", "àèéìòù"
printl string$(60, "-")
printl "Changing code page to 1252...: ", console_setoutputcp(1252)
printl "New code page................: ", console_getoutputcp
printl "Testing string with this CP..: ", "àèéìòù"
printl string$(60, "-")
printl "<Press any key to finish>"

waitkey
[/code]

When it will be on screen waiting for you to press a key, than change console window properties changing font from raster to some true type like Lucida Console.
Done that, can you please confirm if you still see incorrect text or not?

Thanks
Eros

[martin]

Good morning Eros,

This works! I can see the correct text now

Starting code page...........: 850
Testing string with this CP..: àèéìòù
------------------------------------------------------------
Changing code page to 1252...: 1
New code page................: 1252
Testing string with this CP..: àèéìòù
------------------------------------------------------------
<Press any key to finish>

Also writing the string "àèéìòù" to a textfile with FILE_LINEPRINT works fine now!

Martin

[ErosOlmi]

Thank you very much for testing

Now I need to better understand what's going on under the curtains