Bug #8592: when outputing to console, it's encoding is ignored for Windows

• Status: Third Party's Issue
• Assignee: windows
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0p195 (2013-05-14) [x64-mingw32]
• Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN

[davispuh (Dāvis Mosāns)]

=begin
for example code

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#encoding: utf-8
print "testing ā"

when open CMD with changed encoding ie. ((%chcp 1257%))

it wont correctly output ((ā)) even that encoding and console does support it.

also if we change console's encoding to utf-8 with ((%chcp 65001%))
both Ruby versions (1.9 and 2.0) will crash (see attachment)

=end

[luislavena (Luis Lavena)]

• Status changed from Open to Feedback
• Assignee set to windows

Hello,

I was not able to reproduce your problem.

Script:
https://gist.github.com/luislavena/c5a5697bd7079c182034

Result

http://cl.ly/image/440K232n0M0Q

Can you try the same script?

[davispuh (Dāvis Mosāns)]

=begin
yeah, same result

((URL:http://i.imm.io/1aPzV.png))

maybe it's something to do because I've localized version of Windows 8?
=end

[davispuh (Dāvis Mosāns)]

actually I just noticed I had default raster fonts set for console, if I change it to Lucida Console it doesn't crash. And shows characters correctly.

[luislavena (Luis Lavena)]

• Status changed from Feedback to Third Party's Issue

Yeah, forgot to mention that raster fonts are a real problem on Windows.

Closing this now.

[davispuh (Dāvis Mosāns)]

yeah, I didn't noticed it at first. But it's still weird why it crashes and that font still does support those characters. Also in Windows those raster fonts are default when it's just fresh installed. User have to specially change them.

[davispuh (Dāvis Mosāns)]

Is it some MinGW lib's fault for this?

It's still happening with ruby 1.9.3p448 and 2.0.0p247

seems very similar to #7758 maybe it's even same bug.
Those raster fonts acts really weird...

BTW, it does crash even if I launch ruby.exe directly from cmd.exe with full path.

[davispuh (Dāvis Mosāns)]

Raster fonts are also default for PowerShell and it does crash there too.

Is it just for my Win8 installation or everyone that raster fonts are default unless you change them?