How to emit UTF-8 from console mode program?

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Siegfried Heintze

The following perl program prints the russian alphabet in Cryllic when I use
the urxvt console from cygwin. It seems to understand UTF-8 better than
cmd.exe.

perl -wle "binmode STDOUT, q[:utf8]; print chr() for 0x410 .. 0x430;"

How can I translate this program to C# and write a console mode C# program
that emits UTF-8 and displays the proper Cryllic glyphs? I don't care what
console it works with, cmd.exe or urxvt are fine.
 
I don't know how I would check it, but you could try changing the
Console.OutputEncoding. However, I suspect you might need to
OpenStandardOutput() and write directly to the Stream; something like:

using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(
Console.OpenStandardOutput(),
new UTF8Encoding(false))) // no BOM
{
// write your glyphs to "writer"
}

Marc
 
using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(
Console.OpenStandardOutput(),
new UTF8Encoding(false))) // no BOM
{
// write your glyphs to "writer"
}
Click to expand...

What differences UTF-8 without BOM and with BOM ??

Thanks.
 
The BOM (byte order mark) is a few bytes at the start that indicate
which flavour of unicode it is... useful in a file, but for a console
I /suspect/ that it is unnecessary... try it with/without - see which
works better.

Marc
 
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