vs2022 can not display any Chinese in the output debug window only ??????????/

sdowney717 · May 12, 2024

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And what is the lowest 'AUTOS' window at bottom of IDE, it does show the Chinese text.
At least get some feedback there if debugging. Worried if I close that, I will never get it back as I don't know what it's called.

I think it makes it harder to debug.

Still like this from 2020

debugger cannot show chinese characters from a string variable · Issue #5712 · microsoft/vscode-cpptools

#include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; string replace(string line, string o, string n) { auto i = line.find(o); if (i != string::npos) { return line.replace(i, o.length(), n); } return line;...

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WardenGnaw commented on Jun 30, 2020
The debugger can only handle ASCII characters at the moment, if you enable engine logging. You can see that we are printing the unicode values instead of the actual UTF-8 reprensentation.

FreeBooter · May 12, 2024

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garlin · May 12, 2024

FreeBooter said:
Restore Default Font Settings in Windows

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What does this advice have to do with Visual Studio? This question is whether an app is written to support UTF-8 characters in all dialogs.

pseymour · May 12, 2024

I'm not able to reproduce what you're seeing, but try adding a Console.OutputEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8 before your WriteLines.

Edit: Also check which font you're using for the output window : Tools | Options | Environment | Fonts and Colors. Show settings for : Output Window. I don't seem to have issues with Consolas or Cascadia Code.

FreeBooter · May 12, 2024

garlin said:
What does this advice have to do with Visual Studio? This question is whether an app is written to support UTF-8 characters in all dialogs

What is your advice, instead of undermining my suggestion.

garlin · May 12, 2024

I'm not a dev, but my work experience teaches me this is probably a coding or tools-related problem. And resetting part of Windows isn't the first step to fix it.

Replying to most threads with a pre-posted video can be a disservice. What a few folks forget about the 80/20 rule -- is when to recognize a problem falls into the 20% that doesn't apply. If that happens, it's better to stay on the sideline and let someone else (like a @pseymour) lead the way.

FreeBooter · May 12, 2024

I would say mind your own business and let us through a few ideas as well i'm a developer but never used Visual Studio, so my next suggestion will be to clean font cache. Also i do what needed to resolve the problem at hand including videos, who are you to tell me what i should or not do.

sdowney717 · May 13, 2024

pseymour said:
I'm not able to reproduce what you're seeing, but try adding a Console.OutputEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8 before your WriteLines.

Edit: Also check which font you're using for the output window : Tools | Options | Environment | Fonts and Colors. Show settings for : Output Window. I don't seem to have issues with Consolas or Cascadia Code.

Tried the line here and I get an exception when it runs

System.IO.IOException
HResult=0x80070006
Message=The handle is invalid.

Source=<Cannot evaluate the exception source>
StackTrace:
<Cannot evaluate the exception stack trace>

Tried switching font for output window to various fonts, and still shows ???????? in that particular window
It was set to Consolas. Also tried Lucida Sans Unicode. Issue is only in the output window.

Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
Console.OutputEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8
Dim i, j As Integer
Dim LItem As ListViewItem
For i = 0 To ListView1.Items.Count - 1
LItem = ListView1.Items(i) 'first column, same as subitems(0)
Console.WriteLine(LItem.Text)

For j = 0 To LItem.SubItems.Count - 1
'Console.WriteLine(" " & ListView1.Columns(0).Text & " " & LItem.SubItems(0).Text)
Console.WriteLine(" " & LItem.SubItems(0).Text & " " & LItem.SubItems(1).Text & " " & LItem.SubItems(2).Text & " " & LItem.SubItems(3).Text)
' ListView1.Columns.IndexOf(0).text
' ListView1.Columns.Item(0).Text
MsgBox(LItem.SubItems(0).Text)
Next
Next
End Sub

pseymour · May 13, 2024

Hmmm well it’s a little odd anyway that you’re using the Console class to write to the Output window. Is the source something you can send me so I don’t have to try to simulate it?

sdowney717 · May 14, 2024

pseymour said:
Hmmm well it’s a little odd anyway that you’re using the Console class to write to the Output window. Is the source something you can send me so I don’t have to try to simulate it?

sure, put a listview, button on a form

form load event, just delete the non relevant stuff
chinese text line seems to appear on this forum

LItem.Text = "圖圖3解弓月金難手中大"

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

Dim Fname As String
Dim Fsize As Single
Dim FgdiVfont As Boolean
Dim Fgdicharset As Byte
Dim Fstyle As Integer
Dim Funit As Integer
'need to get font settings in registry
Fname = GetSetting(My.Application.Info.Title, "Settings", "searchfontName", ComboSearch1.Font.Name)
Fsize = GetSetting(My.Application.Info.Title, "Settings", "searchfontSize", ComboSearch1.Font.Size)
Fstyle = GetSetting(My.Application.Info.Title, "Settings", "searchfontStyle", ComboSearch1.Font.Style)
Funit = GetSetting(My.Application.Info.Title, "Settings", "searchfontUnit", ComboSearch1.Font.Unit)
Fgdicharset = GetSetting(My.Application.Info.Title, "Settings", "searchfontCharset", ComboSearch1.Font.GdiCharSet)
FgdiVfont = GetSetting(My.Application.Info.Title, "Settings", "searchfontVerticalFont", ComboSearch1.Font.GdiVerticalFont)
ComboSearch1.ForeColor = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromOle(CInt(GetSetting(My.Application.Info.Title, "Settings", "searchfontcolor", CStr(System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.ToOle(ComboSearch1.ForeColor)))))

'for font testing
'Fstyle = FontStyle.Bold Or FontStyle.Italic Or FontStyle.Strikeout Or FontStyle.Underline
'With ComboSearch1
'.Font = New Font(.Font.Name, Font.Size, .Font.Style, .Font.Unit, .Font.GdiCharSet)
'End With

'like something about registry or function is screwed, font not showing properly a user will just reset it
On Error Resume Next
ComboSearch1.Font = New Font(Fname, Fsize, Fstyle, Funit, Fgdicharset)
ComboSearch2.Font = ComboSearch1.Font
Combosearch3.Font = ComboSearch1.Font
' ComboSearch2.ForeColor = ComboSearch1.ForeColor
' Combosearch3.ForeColor = ComboSearch1.ForeColor

Dim LItem As New ListViewItem()
LItem.Text = "圖圖3解弓月金難手中大"
LItem.SubItems.Add("Anders Maria")
LItem.SubItems.Add("030-0074321")
LItem.SubItems.Add("030-0076545")
LItem.ImageIndex = 0
ListView1.Items.Add(LItem)

LItem = New ListViewItem()
LItem.Text = "Around the Horn"
LItem.SubItems.Add("Hardy Thomas")
LItem.SubItems.Add("(171) 555-7788")
LItem.SubItems.Add("(171) 555-6750")
LItem.ImageIndex = 0
ListView1.Items.Add(LItem)

End Sub

here is a button click where it happens

Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
'Console.OutputEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8
Dim i, j As Integer
Dim LItem As ListViewItem
For i = 0 To ListView1.Items.Count - 1
LItem = ListView1.Items(i) 'first column, same as subitems(0)
Console.WriteLine(LItem.Text)

For j = 0 To LItem.SubItems.Count - 1
'Console.WriteLine(" " & ListView1.Columns(0).Text & " " & LItem.SubItems(0).Text)
Console.WriteLine(" " & LItem.SubItems(0).Text & " " & LItem.SubItems(1).Text & " " & LItem.SubItems(2).Text & " " & LItem.SubItems(3).Text)
' ListView1.Columns.IndexOf(0).text
' ListView1.Columns.Item(0).Text
MsgBox(LItem.SubItems(0).Text)
Next
Next
End Sub

Catnip · May 14, 2024

@sdowney717

I am a little confused here, or else I am not reading things right.

Do you actually want the Chinese characters? Or not?

It's a little unclear from your post.

sdowney717 · May 14, 2024

Catnip said:
@sdowney717

I am a little confused here, or else I am not reading things right.

Do you actually want the Chinese characters? Or not?

It's a little unclear from your post.

I would like to see the Chinese chars in the output debug immediate window, yes.
Makes it more consistent with debugging to see the output there when your used to seeing it there.

One of the reasons I wanted to convert a vb6 project was for the unicode ability in vbnet.

China chars show up in all the other windows, why not that one?

What do people of other countries do, when debugging, in their char sets.
see ??????????

Imagine an Indian programmer expecting to see Hindi chars and only gets ?????? marks.

I use the debugging window constantly when programming.

pseymour · May 16, 2024

pseymour said:
Hmmm well it’s a little odd anyway that you’re using the Console class to write to the Output window. Is the source something you can send me so I don’t have to try to simulate it?

Yep, that was it. Switch from using Console.WriteLine to Debug.WriteLine.

Send messages to the Output window - Visual Studio (Windows)

sdowney717 · May 17, 2024

ok, will try it. That is good for debugging.

sdowney717 · May 17, 2024

I have been using vs2008 and vs2022.
And originally wrote that in vs2008.
Something about console versus debug in 2008 may have caused me to use console.writeline.
I am pretty new to VS net , and am used to debug.print in vb6. Maybe I thought was not a significant diff between them.
And I saw examples online of using console.write