Re: Texinfo Windows patch: Non-ASCII text output

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 19:13:24 +1000
> From: Jason Hood <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> On 26/12/2014 18:37, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > The speed is fine on my machines, and cputs does NOT write one
> > character at a time, it uses WriteConsole.  Only cprintf writes one
> > character at a time.
> 
> Not according to the Visual Studio 2010 source, which is presumably
> similar to what MSVCRT.DLL would use.

Depends on the Windows version.  I looked in the version that is used
on XP, and will check with newer versions later.  (I think I did check
in Studio 2010 sources at the time, but maybe I misremember.)

In any case, since with my patches we will never write UTF-8 via
cputs, this is a non-issue, I think.

> Why else do you think you needed to convert to UTF-16?

I don't know.  The Windows console internals are notoriously
under-documented, so many times I need to accept factoids without
really understanding them.

Again, I don't think this is an issue anymore, as we both agree that
cputs should not be used for UTF encoded text.