Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] MR3473: whoami: Refactor and add more commands.

[Hans Leidekker (＠hans)]

On Thu Aug  3 10:09:59 2023 +0000, Maxim Karasev wrote:
> Printing a non-english username.
> `wprintf()` by default doesn't print non-english letters at all (I
> remember testing various system LC_ALL variants, like `C.UTF-8`,
> `en_US.UTF-8`, `ru_RU.UTF-8`, and none of that took an effect).
> With `setlocale(LC_ALL, something)` it does print the letters, but
> 1. Only of a language that is set, so I presume it chooses something
> like a `cp1251` equivalent (an 8-bit language-specific encoding?).
> 2. It isn't used in any of other wine programs, while that
> `ConsoleWriteW()` hack is used at least in present whoami and xcopy
> implementations (probably more).
> This implementation, in turn, behaves exactly like the Windows whoami.
> Also when testing the `klist` I noticed that on Windows it was printing
> `?` signs instead of `Server` string (somehow hooked up a translation?),
> so `ConsoleWriteW()` seems to be necessary for any translatable console
> programs if one wants to avoid `setlocale()`.
> I tried a username with non-ascii characters on Windows 10 and Wine and whoami behaves the same. Non-ascii characters are rendered on the console. When redirecting output non-ascii characters are replaced with '?'.

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https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/3473#note_41261