Can't display certain chars in console programs

[glean]

My console in WinXP is using Lucida Console for the font.

My problem is, I can go to character map and select a
string of special characters such as the following: ®¾Öþ¬«§¯
I can paste them into my console by right-clicking the
title, then edit, paste, and everything is fine.

When I try to display them on the console programmatically
by using Console.WriteLine("®¾Öþ¬«§¯"); , the console
actually displays it as r_Ö_¬«§_

As you can see, some characters were replaced by
underscores, even though they are supported in the current
font's character set.

I tried writing it with unicode codes
Console.WriteLine("\u00AE\u00BE\u00D6\u00FE\u00AC\ u00AB\u00A7\u00AF");
which resulted in the same incorrect output.

I also tried @"®¾Öþ¬«§¯" (using the @ symbol in front) with
no luck.

Anyone know how to fix this?

[Chad Myers]

My guess is that the Console class converts the string
to ASCII before printing to console and
that would account for dumping/replacing the "extended"
characters.

You might have to use the console or "Character Mode"
Win32 APIs directly.

-c

"glean" <ho***@company.com> wrote in message
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My console in WinXP is using Lucida Console for the font.

My problem is, I can go to character map and select a
string of special characters such as the following: ®¾Öþ¬«§¯
I can paste them into my console by right-clicking the
title, then edit, paste, and everything is fine.

When I try to display them on the console programmatically
by using Console.WriteLine("®¾Öþ¬«§¯"); , the console
actually displays it as r_Ö_¬«§_

As you can see, some characters were replaced by
underscores, even though they are supported in the current
font's character set.

I tried writing it with unicode codes
Console.WriteLine("\u00AE\u00BE\u00D6\u00FE\u00AC\ u00AB\u00A7\u00AF");
which resulted in the same incorrect output.

I also tried @"®¾Öþ¬«§¯" (using the @ symbol in front) with
no luck.

Anyone know how to fix this?

[Michael \(michka\) Kaplan [MS]]

Actually, the problem is that the OEM code page is being used, while the
'ANSI' code page (or plain old Unicode) is what is probably wanted. 'ASCII'
never enters to it....
--
MichKa [MS]

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no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Chad Myers" <cm****@N0.SP.AM.austin.rr.com> wrote in message
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My guess is that the Console class converts the string
to ASCII before printing to console and
that would account for dumping/replacing the "extended"
characters.

You might have to use the console or "Character Mode"
Win32 APIs directly.

-c

"glean" <ho***@company.com> wrote in message
news:03****************************@phx.gbl...
My console in WinXP is using Lucida Console for the font.

My problem is, I can go to character map and select a
string of special characters such as the following: ®¾Öþ¬«§¯
I can paste them into my console by right-clicking the
title, then edit, paste, and everything is fine.

When I try to display them on the console programmatically
by using Console.WriteLine("®¾Öþ¬«§¯"); , the console
actually displays it as r_Ö_¬«§_

As you can see, some characters were replaced by
underscores, even though they are supported in the current
font's character set.

I tried writing it with unicode codes
Console.WriteLine("\u00AE\u00BE\u00D6\u00FE\u00AC\ u00AB\u00A7\u00AF");
which resulted in the same incorrect output.

I also tried @"®¾Öþ¬«§¯" (using the @ symbol in front) with
no luck.

Anyone know how to fix this?