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zb226
zb226

Reputation: 10500

Printing Unicode characters to the shell

I'd like to output a Unicode character in cmd, but the obvious approach fails:

C:\Windows\System32>perl6 -e "'Я'.say"
?

Interestingly, this works:

C:\Windows\System32>perl6 -e "Buf.new(0xD0, 0xAF).decode('UTF-8').say"
Я

What seems to be the problem here?

Edit: I'm using the most recent Rakudo Star release from here.

C:\Windows\System32>perl6 -v
This is Rakudo version 2016.01.1 built on MoarVM version 2016.01
implementing Perl 6.c.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 227

Answers (1)

user5854207
user5854207

Reputation:

The problem is a lack of testing on Windows. Please file a bug report against Rakudo. If you got a recent Rakudo Star version that is.

Update: Bug was filed and the issue has since been fixed.

C:\Windows\System32>perl6 -v
This is Rakudo version 2017.04.3 built on MoarVM version 2017.04-53-g66c6dda
implementing Perl 6.c.

C:\Windows\System32>perl6 -e "'Я'.say"
Я

Sinan Ünür has written an interesting blog post on the problem.

Upvotes: 2

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