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Title: C-files & DOS Cyrillic encoding
Post by: SuperSailorMoon on January 01, 2008, 03:17:34 pm

Can I customise Code::Blocks somehow to source text saving (for example, .c file) in format OEM 866 (DOS Cyrillic)? Otherwise non-Latin characters are displayed incorrectly in console applications.
(http://sibid.narod.ru/hw.png)

OEM 866 is absent in Default encoding when opening files: list. Perhaps, is it possible to add this encoding somehow?
(http://sibid.narod.ru/cp.png)

Title: Re: C-files & DOS Cyrillic encoding
Post by: Biplab on January 01, 2008, 04:20:45 pm

If C::B can display it properly, it indicates that the file is saved properly. But while compiling, the compiler is getting confused.

Try adding -finput-charset=CP1251 command to compiler options. :)

Title: Re: C-files & DOS Cyrillic encoding
Post by: SuperSailorMoon on January 01, 2008, 11:33:36 pm

The file, used in the picture above, is saved in Windows 1251 format. If it is saved as OEM 866, the text in editor window is displayed incorrectly, however the compiled program displays this text correctly.

(http://sibid.narod.ru/jhrdyt4eyhrt.png)

How to make WYSIWYG?

Title: Re: C-files & DOS Cyrillic encoding
Post by: SuperSailorMoon on January 02, 2008, 04:25:21 pm

I have solved this problem!
1. It is necessary to change default font for console applications. That is, to change standard dot font to vector font, such as Consolas (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=22e69ae4-7e40-4807-8a86-b3d36fab68d3&DisplayLang=en) or Lucida Console. Take advantage of this .reg file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console]
"ScreenColors"=dword:0000000f
"FontSize"=dword:00100000
"FontFamily"=dword:00000036
"FontWeight"=dword:000002bc
"FaceName"="Consolas"

for Consolas, or this:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console]
"FontSize"=dword:000e0000
"FontWeight"=dword:00000190
"FaceName"="Lucida Console"
"FontFamily"=dword:00000036
"ScreenColors"=dword:0000000f

for Lucida Console.

2. It is necessary to add following lines in a program code:
#include <Windows.h>
and
SetConsoleOutputCP (1251);

(http://sibid.narod.ru/ytf7se8hbeg.png)

Title: Re: C-files & DOS Cyrillic encoding
Post by: ivucica on January 02, 2008, 05:11:43 pm

Quote from: SuperSailorMoon on January 02, 2008, 04:25:21 pm

I have solved this problem!
<snip>

Seems more like an ugly hack than a problem solution to me. An end user will not be willing to do the registry hack that you're doing, and it's probably much easier to add a new CP to C::B's editor than to convince users to replace their default font. (We may like it, but the end users won't. And they'll like automatization even less.)

Regarding GNU/Linux machines, I don't know about their Cyrillic configuration (I didn't even fix it up for my Croatian == Central European glyphs), but it doesn't sound to me like most people will adapt their OS installation to suit their programs. If the distributions use CP 866, then coding for  such distros is a bit harder with C::B.

Ok, I'll stfu. :)

Title: Re: C-files & DOS Cyrillic encoding
Post by: SuperSailorMoon on January 02, 2008, 06:19:51 pm

I wish Code::Blocks editor supported OEM 866 codepage... But it is absent, unfortunately.

Title: Re: C-files & DOS Cyrillic encoding
Post by: Albenejean on January 02, 2008, 06:36:41 pm

Well, I don't know if this is related to CB. I thinks it's due to windows or to C++.

I can play whith CB all the time, the only way I know to display french caracters in a console is to use

Code

setlocale(LC_CTYPE,"french");

Title: Re: C-files & DOS Cyrillic encoding
Post by: SuperSailorMoon on January 02, 2008, 07:11:54 pm

Quote from: Albenejean on January 02, 2008, 06:36:41 pm

Well, I don't know if this is related to CB. I thinks it's due to windows or to C++.

I can play whith CB all the time, the only way I know to display french caracters in a console is to use

Code

setlocale(LC_CTYPE,"french");

Many thanks, Albenejean! This way has helped:

setlocale(LC_ALL,".ACP");