Done Working UTF-8 Support

May 20, 2008
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Elkridge, MD, USA
TCMD.INI is handled when you start a new instance of TCC.EXE. However, since you can use
option //UnicodeOutput=yes
and
option //UnicodeOutput=no
at any time (e.g., in a batch file) it can probably be done at any time, too. Test it!
 
Jun 24, 2008
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Siegen, Germany
Try TYPE with a file containing Unicode (UTF-8) characters. OPTION //Unicode=Yes has no influence on the (incorrect) output. However: CHCP 65001 will do what you want.

BUT: Try this (with CHCP 65001 set) on the TCC command line: REN test töst

So, here the input is the problem. In conclusion: No working Unicode support in TCC (I haven't tested this with TCmd as I don't use it...).
 
Aug 23, 2010
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Try TYPE with a file containing Unicode (UTF-8) characters. OPTION //Unicode=Yes has no influence on the (incorrect) output. However: CHCP 65001 will do what you want.

BUT: Try this (with CHCP 65001 set) on the TCC command line: REN test töst

So, here the input is the problem. In conclusion: No working Unicode support in TCC (I haven't tested this with TCmd as I don't use it...).
Internal UNICODE support ("OPTION //Unicode=Yes") of application has very little relevance to the UNICODE support of the terminal you're working in ("chcp 65001").
 

rconn

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May 14, 2008
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So, here the input is the problem. In conclusion: No working Unicode support in TCC (I haven't tested this with TCmd as I don't use it...).

That's a bit of a misstatement. TCMD and TCC fully support Unicode the (only) way Windows supports it, as UTF-16. The Windows file system and internal Windows APIs do not support UTF-8. The UTF-8 support that TCC does include -- which is way more than CMD (i.e., none at all) -- requires converting everything before passing it to & from Windows. Including UTF-8 support everywhere would (1) substantially slow down TCC and TCMD for everybody, including the 99.99% who never use UTF-8, and (2) require several thousand lines of additional code (probably in the 10,000-20,000 range).

So it comes down to priorities -- would all the users rather have no new features & slower execution in the next version of TCC / TCMD in exchange for full UTF-8 support?
 

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