Re: [PATCHES] WIN32_CONSOLE usage

From: Manfred Spraul <manfred(at)colorfullife(dot)com>
To: Christoph Dalitz <christoph(dot)dalitz(at)hs-niederrhein(dot)de>
Cc: peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net, pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] WIN32_CONSOLE usage
Date: 2003-09-11 20:04:18
Message-ID: 3F60D542.2030409@colorfullife.com
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Christoph Dalitz wrote:

>On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:51:24 +0200
>Manfred Spraul <manfred(at)colorfullife(dot)com> wrote:
>
>
>>- OemToChar() and CharToOem() convert all console input/output. In the
>>long run this might be the better solution, if it works entirely without
>>user intervention. I'm not sure if it's possible to get all corner cases
>>right.
>>
>>
>>
>I do not think that it is possible to handle all cases automatically.
>Even restricting the conversion to input/output on stdin/stdout will fail in
>some circumstances; eg. with the command "psql < script.sql" when the
>script has been written with a windows editor (notepad, emacs or whatever).
>
It would be very hard to get right. Perhaps something like isatty(),
except that it's probably called GetHandleIsConsoleFlag() or something
like that, followed by a check of the code page. But I didn't find a
suitable function yet.

--
Manfred

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