Re: start:start.c Display messages in the console encoding.

[Anatoly Lyutin]

Kirill K. Smirnov wrote:
> WriteFile does not output unicode characters to console screen buffer, so if 
> ConsoleOutputCP is smth like 65001, this will fail.
> The page http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms687401.aspx contains 
> remedy by Microsoft how to deal with problem:
> - If device handle is console, then output wide chars using WriteConsoleW
> - If device handle is not console, then convert wide chars to ConsoleOutputCP
>
> and output using WriteFileA.

Hmm. I shall work above these a question. Thank you for opinion.
> This way is already implemented in cmd (See WCMD_output_asis_len function).
>
> And it may be much better to convert start utility to unicode.

Yes, I  agree with you.
> --
> Kirill
>
> P.S. all this manipulations is supposed to be done by msvcrt printf function 
> family, but wine lacks this functionality :-(