Re: UTF-8 and the Windows console

[Matthias Kluwe <mkluwe@...>]

Hi!

2009/3/30 Esteban Santana Santana <mentalpower@gmail.com>:
> Ah, that was the missing link,

:->

> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]
> Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>
> C:\Users\User>chcp 65001
> Active code page: 65001
>
> C:\Users\User>lua
> Lua 5.1.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
>> print' '
>
> C:\Users\User>
>
> However, do note the white space between the quotes, I suspect é gets
> interpreted by the command line as something else that causes the running
> program to quit.

Yes, but if the desired character does not appear on screen this may
be due to font problems. I switched to »Lucida Console« here and the
character shows up (and copying around the console content works as
well).

Regards,
Matthias