Re: Showing UTF-8 characters in a Windows console script

[Ignacio Burgueño <ignaciob@...>]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Luciano de Souza <luchyanus@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello listers,


These two routines are in Kernel32.dll. I don't know if tthere is a COM interface.

My question is: how to do the same in Lua?

 

This worked for me (Windows 7 64 bits).

os.execute("chcp 65001")

local f = io.open("foo", "rb")

print(f:read("*a"))

f:close()

Where file foo is just:

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