win32utils devel - Jan 2008 - Temporarily setting the output language for cmd.exe

Hi all,

One of the net-ping users reported that the Net::Ping::External library 
was returning false positives on Vista. Basically, it does a ''ping -n1 
host'' and checks for certain error strings.

The problem is that the error strings it checks for are in English. The 
user in question is using a cmd.exe that''s entirely in Swedish (I
think).

Is there any way I can temporarily set the language of the command 
console so that it emits English only? I tried setlocale() but that 
didn''t work. Perhaps a registry setting somewhere? Or an explicit
''cmd
/c'' call with some other special option?

Thanks,

Dan

Hi,

2008/1/18, Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> One of the net-ping users reported that the Net::Ping::External library
> was returning false positives on Vista. Basically, it does a ''ping
-n1
> host'' and checks for certain error strings.
>
> The problem is that the error strings it checks for are in English. The
> user in question is using a cmd.exe that''s entirely in Swedish (I
think).
>
> Is there any way I can temporarily set the language of the command
> console so that it emits English only? I tried setlocale() but that
> didn''t work. Perhaps a registry setting somewhere? Or an explicit
''cmd
> /c'' call with some other special option?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan

In the cmd.exe console window, Run "chcp 437".

Regards,

Park Heesob
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> Heesob Park
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 9:03 PM
> To: Development and ideas for win32utils projects
> Subject: Re: [Win32utils-devel] Temporarily setting the 
> output language forcmd.exe
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 2008/1/18, Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>: 
> 
> 	Hi all,
> 	
> 	One of the net-ping users reported that the 
> Net::Ping::External library
> 	was returning false positives on Vista. Basically, it 
> does a ''ping -n1 
> 	host'' and checks for certain error strings.
> 	
> 	The problem is that the error strings it checks for are 
> in English. The
> 	user in question is using a cmd.exe that''s entirely in 
> Swedish (I think).
> 	
> 	Is there any way I can temporarily set the language of 
> the command 
> 	console so that it emits English only? I tried 
> setlocale() but that
> 	didn''t work. Perhaps a registry setting somewhere? Or 
> an explicit ''cmd
> 	/c'' call with some other special option?
> 	
> 	Thanks,
> 	
> 	Dan
> 
>  
> In the cmd.exe console window, Run "chcp 437".
Hm, I''ve tried playing around with it, but it doesn''t seem to
change the
language output of ping. However, that could very well have to do with
the way this machine is configured.

Heesob, does it work for you? I mean, do you have your console set to
use Korean, but ping emits English for you if you do chcp 437 && ping
-n1 www.ruby-lang.org?

Thanks,

Dan


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Hi,

2008/1/19, Berger, Daniel <Daniel.Berger at
qwest.com>:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: win32utils-devel-bounces at rubyforge.org
> > [mailto:win32utils-devel-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of
> > Heesob Park
> > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 9:03 PM
> > To: Development and ideas for win32utils projects
> > Subject: Re: [Win32utils-devel] Temporarily setting the
> > output language forcmd.exe
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > 2008/1/18, Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com >:
> >
> >       Hi all,
> >
> >       One of the net-ping users reported that the
> > Net::Ping::External library
> >       was returning false positives on Vista. Basically, it
> > does a ''ping -n1
> >       host'' and checks for certain error strings.
> >
> >       The problem is that the error strings it checks for are
> > in English. The
> >       user in question is using a cmd.exe that''s entirely in
> > Swedish (I think).
> >
> >       Is there any way I can temporarily set the language of
> > the command
> >       console so that it emits English only? I tried
> > setlocale() but that
> >       didn''t work. Perhaps a registry setting somewhere? Or
> > an explicit ''cmd
> >       /c'' call with some other special option?
> >
> >       Thanks,
> >
> >       Dan
> >
> >
> > In the cmd.exe console window, Run "chcp 437".
>
> Hm, I''ve tried playing around with it, but it doesn''t
seem to change the
> language output of ping. However, that could very well have to do with
> the way this machine is configured.
>
> Heesob, does it work for you? I mean, do you have your console set to
> use Korean, but ping emits English for you if you do chcp 437 &&
ping
> -n1 www.ruby-lang.org?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
>
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In my XP Prof, ping alway emits English whatsoever code page.
But in my Vista, ping emit different message for each code page.

chcp 437 && ping -n1 www.ruby-lang.org emits:

Active code page: 437

Pinging carbon.ruby-lang.org [221.186.184.68] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 221.186.184.68: bytes=32 time=287ms TTL=39

Ping statistics for 221.186.184.68:
    Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 1, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 287ms, Maximum = 287ms, Average = 287ms

Regards,
Park Heesob
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<snip>
  
> In my XP Prof, ping alway emits English whatsoever code page.
> But in my Vista, ping emit different message for each code page.
>  
> chcp 437 && ping -n1 www.ruby-lang.org emits:
> 
> Active code page: 437
> 
> Pinging carbon.ruby-lang.org [221.186.184.68] with 32 bytes of data:
> 
> Reply from 221.186.184.68: bytes=32 time=287ms TTL=39
> 
> Ping statistics for 221.186.184.68:
>     Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 1, Lost = 0 (0% loss), 
> Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
>     Minimum = 287ms, Maximum = 287ms, Average = 287ms 
Ah, thanks.

Here''s another question. Why, if I set the code page to 437, does
GetACP() return 1252?

C:\Documents and Settings\djberge>chcp 437
Active code page: 437

C:\Documents and Settings\djberge>irb
irb(main):001:0> require ''windows/national''
=> true
irb(main):002:0> include Windows::National
=> Object
irb(main):003:0> GetACP()
=> 1252

I realise 1252 is "Latin 1" while 437 is "United States",
but I''m
curious why they''re different here. Am I confusing two different
things?

Thanks,

Dan


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Berger, Daniel wrote:
> <snip>
>   
>> In my XP Prof, ping alway emits English whatsoever code page.
>> But in my Vista, ping emit different message for each code page.
>>  
>> chcp 437 && ping -n1 www.ruby-lang.org emits:
>>
>> Active code page: 437
>>
>> Pinging carbon.ruby-lang.org [221.186.184.68] with 32 bytes of data:
>>
>> Reply from 221.186.184.68: bytes=32 time=287ms TTL=39
>>
>> Ping statistics for 221.186.184.68:
>>     Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 1, Lost = 0 (0% loss), 
>> Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
>>     Minimum = 287ms, Maximum = 287ms, Average = 287ms 
> 
> Ah, thanks.
> 
> Here''s another question. Why, if I set the code page to 437, does
> GetACP() return 1252?
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\djberge>chcp 437
> Active code page: 437
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\djberge>irb
> irb(main):001:0> require ''windows/national''
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> include Windows::National
> => Object
> irb(main):003:0> GetACP()
> => 1252
> 
> I realise 1252 is "Latin 1" while 437 is "United
States", but I''m
> curious why they''re different here. Am I confusing two different
things?
Whoops, nvermind. You have to use GetConsoleCP() to get the console code 
page. GetACP() returns the system code page.

Regards,

Dan