Re: BUG #6510: A simple prompt is displayed using wrong charset

Excerpts from Alexander LAW's message of dom mar 18 06:04:51 -0300 2012:
> I see two ways to resolve the issue.
> First is to use CharToOemBuff when writing a string to the "con" and
> OemToCharBuff when reading an input from it.
> The other is to always use stderr/stdin for Win32 as it was done for
> msys before. I think it's more straightforward.

Using console directly instead of stdin/out/err is more appropriate when
asking for passwords and reading them back, because you can redirect the
rest of the output to/from files or pipes, without the prompt
interfering with that. This also explains why stderr is used instead of
stdout.

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