Russian characters not displayed

[franchesko1437]

Levak helps. Why, instead of Russian characters are displayed numbers? Look at the screenshot. How can I fix it?

[Levak]

What is your environment? Cygwin? Mingw? GNU/Linux?
See #66

[franchesko1437]

cygwin
The Russian language is present in the console, but I can not write on it, and instead of the Russian language the figures are displayed

[Levak]

Are you using wb_launcher.hta or wb.sh?

[franchesko1437]

wb_launcher.hta

[Levak]

Then do what is indicated in #66

[franchesko1437]

You did not understand. The Russian language is displayed, but I can not enter it.

[Levak]

Have you tried it nonetheless?

[franchesko1437]

Yes, I tried. See screenshot

[Levak]

Can you type these characters in the console without warfacebot launched?
Can you type these characters without debug mode? make clean wb

I cannot find any material on Google about this issue linked with Cygwin or readline.
What I do know is that on GNU/Linux there is no problem when typing Cyrillic in the console.

So, from there, it will be your duty to find what's wrong and what can be done. I cannot help here (unless you find a solution and I will integrate it if possible).

[franchesko1437]

1.yes
2.NO. symbol. do not enter

https://goo.gl/oNG9qv

[Levak]

Ok. I've dug up a little more into the issue and confirm the problem about inputting Unicode into the command prompt.

The issue seems to be a shared problem among all command-line programs under Windows, using cmd.exe. e.g. mintty.exe is said to be exempt of any problem.

I've read around and found no actual fix. The frustrating part is that, indeed, one cannot type any non-ASCII character at all in the prompt, even if these are correctly displayed once in chcp 65001 page.

So, I came up to a simple "idea". If you want to write any command that requires Unicode, open a new text file, put your commands in there, and then run exec yourfile.txt.

PS: By doing this I've identified a bug in the exec command that leads to a crash if a line is empty and wb compiled in non-debug mode. Will try to push a fix soon.

References:

• Properly deal with console codepages on windows JuliaLang/julia#6795
• https://bugs.python.org/issue1602