windows: Hello, 世界 -> Hello, õ©ûþòî

[gopherbot]

by eduard.castany:

What steps will reproduce the problem?
package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    fmt.Println("Hello, 世界")
}

go run hola.go

What is the expected output?
Hello, 世界

What do you see instead?
Hello, õ©ûþòî

Which compiler are you using (5g, 6g, 8g, gccgo)?
go.weekly.2012-03-13.windows-amd64.msi

Which operating system are you using?
windows 7 64

[alberts]

Comment 1:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/379240/is-there-a-windows-command-shell-that-will-display-unicode-characters
If you do
chcp 65001
go run hola.go > utf8.txt
and then open utf8.txt, you see the right stuff.
If you change the font of the command prompt to "Consolas" or "Lucida Console", you'll
see Hello, ?? or Hello [][].
If you copy and paste that to a place that understands UTF-8, you see this again:
Hello, 世界

[alberts]

Comment 2:

http://bugs.python.org/issue1602
specifically,
http://bugs.python.org/issue1602#msg145898
seems applicable.

[dsymonds]

Comment 4:

It's not clear what the bug here is. It sounds like the Go program is producing UTF-8,
but the thing trying to print it is not configured for UTF-8. That doesn't sound like a
Go bug to me; it sounds like either a bug in the program (e.g. if it needs to work in an
environment that can't render UTF-8 then it shouldn't output UTF-8), or a configuration
issue for the Windows terminal.

Labels changed: added priority-later, removed priority-triage.

Status changed to WaitingForReply.

[gopherbot]

Comment 5 by eduard.castany:

It was executed using cmd.exe
can it be configured to allow UTF-8 with the .msi?

[alexbrainman]

Comment 6:

We had that conversation before:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/WhpWNhBRMFM/u5wLJsH4iNMJ. There were some
solutions mentioned. Even some code.
Alex

[rsc]

Comment 7:

Status changed to Duplicate.

Merged into issue #3376.