Dear All:

Thank you so much for all your help!

Yes,I am using xp+sp3 Chinese version and can print Chinese font in the console in C++ program:

#include <iostream>
int main(int argc,char* argv[])
{
std::cout<<"Öйú"<<std::endl;
return 0;
}

Elrood wrote:
> While it certainly wasn't my intent to spread false info, nor to defend D or sidetrack from its bugs, I cannot confirm that unicode output *just plain works*, neither with Python, and I'd be highly interested in more info on how you got it to work.

There are two separate issues here.  One is unicode output (which
involves translating unicode text to the encoding used by the console).
 The other issue is having a console window that can display the
characters that you want to display.

The former can be tested without resorting to exotic code pages.  Try to
 output 'Ķ' in CP775 or 'İ' in CP857.  Both of these code pages are
readily available.

To enable Chinese characters, some more work is necessary.  Under
Windows XP, Control Panel, Regional and Language Options:
  - On the Languages pane, make sure East Asian Languages is checked.
  - On the Advanced pane, select a language that uses Chinese characters.
  - On the Advanced pane, make sure that the code pages you want to use
are checked.


-- 
Rainer Deyke - rainerd@eldwood.com

@Rainer Deyke:

Thanks for your clarification.
The problem is that, unless you set up your system to use Chinese for
every non-unicode-ready application, systemwide and for all users, you
will not get Chinese character output in the Windows console.

The downside is that setting up your OS in such a way tends to render the user interface of a lot of other applications unusable if Chinese isn't your everyday language.

For a lot of us this isn't very practicable, eg. having my German
umlauts replaced with Chinese glyphs isn't exactly what I have dreamed
of all my life.
That's what I meant with the changes not being trivial, and your
response sounded a bit like I was talking nonsense and getting it to
work was a piece of cake, and I naturally was curious whether there was
a simple solution. While being a bit disappointing, thanks for
straightening out that this isn't the case.

Nonetheless there apparently is a bug here if D/Phobos with its supposed unicode support isn't capable of producing output which is possible with Python or even olde C++.