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Using TYPE with non-English text

Joe Caverly

Joe Caverly

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TCC  27.00.18 x64   Windows 10 [Version 10.0.19042.746]

In the clipboard, I have an Arabic word.

TYPE does not return the proper characters, but @LINE does.
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Why the difference?

Joe
 
The contents of the clipboard. Which I guess means, "How are you putting this text on the clipboard?"
 
Google Translate
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I click on the lower-right icon to copy to the clipboard.

Joe
 
rconn said:
The text snippet isn't long enough for TYPE to determine whether it's ASCII, UTF8, or UTF16. (And it doesn't have a BOM to help.)
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How do @clip[0] and @line[clip:,0] manage to get it right?
 
rconn said:
The text snippet isn't long enough for TYPE to determine whether it's ASCII, UTF8, or UTF16. (And it doesn't have a BOM to help.)
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Is TYPE reading from the clipboard directly? Or is it copying the data out to a file, and then dumping that?
 
Hmmm! In Windows Terminal I see a rendering of it that looks more like Google's (than TCMD's rendering; consoles just give the unprintable symbol). Why does TCMD show it differently? And I'd like to know how WT/TCCTCMD/ConHost (???) knows it's right-to-left text. In the third line below, I pasted it on the command line and pressed backspace once; the cursor was at the righthand end but the leftmost character was deleted.

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Here they are, side by side, Windows Terminal on the left, TCMD on the right, pasted from the same clipboard, same font (Consolas). Why do they look different? And when I look at Consolas with CharMap, I don't see ANY Arabic characters.

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vefatica said:
Hmmm! In Windows Terminal I see a rendering of it that looks more like Google's (than TCMD's rendering; consoles just give the unprintable symbol). Why does TCMD show it differently? And I'd like to know how WT/TCCTCMD/ConHost (???) knows it's right-to-left text. In the third line below, I pasted it on the command line and pressed backspace once; the cursor was at the righthand end but the leftmost character was deleted.

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Take Command and TCC do not support RTL character sets.
 
vefatica said:
Here they are, side by side, Windows Terminal on the left, TCMD on the right, pasted from the same clipboard, same font (Consolas). Why do they look different? And when I look at Consolas with CharMap, I don't see ANY Arabic characters.

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Hey @vefatica do you get the same results using the @UNICODE function on Windows Terminal as TCMD?

EDIT: Yep, same numbers as TCMD here on Windows Terminal;

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Joe
 
VIEW works as it should with Arabic text in a file;
Code: 
v.exe e:\utils\test.txt
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This does not work;
Code: 
e:\utils>echo %@line[test.txt,0]
مرحبا

...but this works;
Code: 
e:\utils>echo %@line[test.txt,0] | *view

Why does echo @line work in my OP, that is, using the clip: as source, but echo @line does not work when the source is a text file?

Here's the hex VIEW for the file;
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Yet, echo @line works when piped through to VIEW.

Not sure why I did not have problems a few years back when working with Hebrew characters, but Arabic is not playing nice.

Joe
 
My psychic powers tell me that TEST.TXT is UTF-8 with no BOM, and OPTION UTF8 returns a No.
 
Charles Dye said:
My psychic powers tell me that TEST.TXT is UTF-8 with no BOM, and OPTION UTF8 returns a No.
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Well, psychic one, you are correct!

I've enabled Unicode output and UTF8, and it seems to be working now.
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This works now;
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Thanks @Charles Dye

Joe
 
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