[Mono-devel-list] Special Characters

[Pablo Cardona]

Thanks for the help. I had the same reply from monohispano list, and
it works, so the problem is solved using utf8 in the codepage option.
Now all that special characters are shown.

Thanks.




On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:14:01 -0200, Rafael Teixeira <monoman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Probably your source file is in some other encoding than windows-1252,
> probably utf-8, you have to instruct mcs to recognize it using the
> -codepage command line option. For utf-8 you use:
> 
> mcs -codepage:utf8 yoursource.cs ...
> 
> I still don't like this new behaviour in mcs, but we still could not
> be the necessary supporting classes as smart as the logic MS's C#
> compiler (csc.exe) uses to discover if a file is encoded in utf-8,
> even if the BOM marker based signature
> (http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM) is not present, as is
> normally generated by most linux text editors nowadays...
> 
> Hope it helps,
> 
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:45:30 +0100, Pablo Cardona <pcardona37 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, I have  problem trying to show in console diferent especial
> > characters, like ñ (ascii 164), which is an important character in
> > spanish.
> > Instead of appears this special character in the console, appears
> > another character.
> > I've tried to reconfigure locales with different types of locales but
> > the problem still continues.
> > I've also tried to show this character in console with a little
> > program in C, and the character is shown properly.
> > I'm using only this method: Console.WriteLine("ñ");
> > So I don't know if it is a problem about the configuration of the
> > console, or I'm not doing it well with MONO.
> >
> > So if anybody can help me please reply.
> >
> > Thanks.
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