RE: UTF-8 on NT

From: Timothy Greenwood (tgreenwood@openmarket.com)
Date: Tue Sep 04 2001 - 16:26:58 EDT


>I'm afraid ,that there no way to set UTF-8 locale on Windows via setlocale.
Even if you try
>to do this with setlocale("French_Canada.65001") it won't work correctly.
>It's a pitty , because the porting of Unix programms,relying on UTF-8
locale becomes very
>challenging task on Windows.

What happens is you issue

chcp 65001

from a DOS box that then kicks off the windows app?



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