[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #52556] Octave stops writing to console

[Markus Mützel]

Update of bug #52556 (project octave):

                 Release:                   4.4.1 => dev                    

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Follow-up Comment #10:

The "äöü" example works for me with the SYSTEM encoding when I test with a
recent version from the default branch. I am still un-sure whether it will
work for everyone cause I have some local modifications to relevant packages
in MXE Octave.

However, "help sym" displays a lot of scrambled characters. That is because
that file is encoded in UTF-8 but we assume it to be encoded in the SYSTEM
encoding. Converting it from SYSTEM (CP1252 in my case) to UTF-8 creates these
odd characters.

That conversion is done in input.cc in function "file_reader::get_input".
Can we differentiate between .m files from the core or packages (which
probably always are UTF-8) on the one hand and user created .m files (which
could have any encoding) on the other hand at that point? Does the lexer keep
track of this?

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