INFO: SetConsoleOutputCP Only Effective with Unicode Fonts

• Microsoft Win32 Application Programming Interface (API), used with:
  • Microsoft Windows NT versions 3.51, 4.0
  • Microsoft Windows 2000

SUMMARY

SetConsoleOutputCP() changes the displaying of extended characters in a console window only if the current font is a fixed-pitch Unicode font. It does not effect the displaying of extended characters of the console font named "Raster Font."

MORE INFORMATION

SetConsoleOutputCP() is designed to change the mapping of the 256 8-bit character values into the glyph set of a fixed-pitch Unicode font, rather than loading a separate, non-Unicode font for each call to SetConsoleOutputCP(). For Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 2000 the currently available Unicode console font is the Lucida Console TrueType font.

To demonstrate SetConsoleOutputCP(), implement a console application that calls this API. After a successful return from this function, call printf to display characters of ASCII value greater than 127.

The Win32 Platform SDK also ships with a Sample called CONSOLE in the \samples\WinUI\Console\Console directory that demonstrates the use of the SetConsoleOutputCP() API.

Additional query words: winnt codepage

Keywords : kbprg kbAPI kbConsole kbKernBase kbNTOS351 kbNTOS400 kbWinOS2000 kbDSupport kbGrpKernBase
Version : winnt:3.51,4.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbinfo