On Sunday, 22 December 2019 at 18:41:16 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
Phobos doesn't call the wrong function, libc does. Phobos uses
fwrite for output.
There is allegedly a way to set fwrite to do the translations on
MSVCRT:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/setmode?view=vs-2019
but trying it here it throws invalid parameter exception so idk.
Regardless, I'm pretty well of the opinion that fwrite is the
wrong thing to do anyway. fwrite writes bytes to a file, but we
want to write strings to the console. There's other functions
that do that.
There is the worry of mixing stuff from C and keeping the buffer
consistent, but it could always just flush() before doing its
thing too. Or maybe even merge the buffers, idk what the MS
runtime supports for that.
or maybe i'm missing something and _setmode is a viable solution.
But whatever we do, passing the buck isn't solving anything.
Windows has supported Unicode console output since NT 4.0 in
1996.. just have to call the right function, and whether it is
Phobos calling it or druntime or the CRT, someone just needs to
do it!
