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
- 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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Hans Leidekker (＠hans)