in reply to Change the charset for a window

I know you can do stuff to windows with the win32::API but I'm not sure if you can change the character set used by a window.

What do you mean by "character set"? You can change both the input and output codepages (see Win32::Console). If you're on Vista or Server2008 you can set the font, but not prior to that. That new functionality isn't (yet) a part of Win32::Console so you'd have to resort to Win32::API

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Re^2: Change the charset for a window
by kanegr (Acolyte) on Sep 05, 2008 at 23:44 UTC
    Well you can change the font of a win32 window using win32::API You get the handle on the window and then pass wm_setfont to the window. But the documentation on how to use it properly and efficiently is poor. I was just wondering if you could set the character set to 2(symbol). I think the default is 0(ansi).
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      Sorry. I got the wrong end of the stick and thought you were asking to change a console window font.

      After a quick browse, I'm guessing that you would have to create a new font with the same characteristics as the existing one, but a different character set. But I don't see any way of going from the HFONT returned by WM_GETFONT back to the parameters from which it was created. I think you'll have to go to a windows specific forum for the help you need.

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