Console output differs from instruction

[DirectuX]

Please, can someone confirm ?

uses "console"

printl Console_GetCP ' Outputs 850
printl " °C " ' Outputs  ┬░C 

WaitKey

ThinBasic 1.11.6.0 ALPHA
Font is "Consolas" and has support for the characters needed.
Changing font to "Deja vu" doesn't solve the issue.
Changing codePage to 1252 or 65001 doesn't solve the issue.

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi DirectuX,

the issue is in fact thinBASIC strings are now UTF8 encoded.

You can workaround it like:

uses "console"
 
printl Console_getCP ' Outputs 850
printl " " + chr$(248) + "C "
 
WaitKey

There is yet a mountain of work to make UTF8 work across various corners of thinBASIC.


Petr

[DirectuX]

Ah-ha!
Thanks Petr !

[ErosOlmi]

Forcing output code page to UTF8 can help.
Put the following at the beginning of the script

Console_SetOutputCP(%CP_UTF8)

[DirectuX]

Forcing output code page to UTF8 can help.
Put the following at the beginning of the script

Console_SetOutputCP(%CP_UTF8)

Changing codePage to 1252 or 65001 doesn't solve the issue.

Thanks Eros, it didn't work first because I was using Console_SetCP function instead.

Note: %CP_ built-in constants are not listed in the help file.