Set the proper output codepage for the console.

90a0020f · Rémi Denis-Courmont · dab63839 · 90a0020f
Commit 90a0020f authored Feb 01, 2008 by Rémi Denis-Courmont
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--- a/src/libvlc-common.c
+++ b/src/libvlc-common.c
@@ -1824,6 +1824,10 @@ static void ShowConsole( vlc_bool_t b_dofile )
    if( getenv( "PWD" ) && getenv( "PS1" ) ) return; /* cygwin shell */

    AllocConsole();
+    /* Use the ANSI code page (e.g. Windows-1252) as expected by the LibVLC
+     * Unicode/locale subsystem. By default, we have the obsolecent OEM code
+     * page (e.g. CP437 or CP850). */
+    SetConsoleOutputCP (GetACP ());

    freopen( "CONOUT$", "w", stderr );
    freopen( "CONIN$", "r", stdin );