Non-ASCII Character Issues about readline-sync

[anseki]

Hi @ciw1973, thank you for the comment.
In Windows, that may be a encoding issue even if the user entered text is correct, because Node.js uses UTF-8 as default.

[ciw1973]

Do you have any suggestions to either fix, or work around this?

This is pretty much the simplest possible case, and ideally it should work "out of the box".

[anseki]

This may help you: #48
Or, these are other information.
https://github.com/anseki/readline-sync/issues?q=is%3Aissue+chcp

[ciw1973]

I had looked through the previous issues before creating this ticket, however they all relate to issues with the text of the prompt (UTF-8 being displayed in the console) and my issue is with the user input.

I did try turning on "Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support" in Windows, but the result was the following:

[anseki]

For test, write the string data to a file with UTF-8 instead of printing on screen.
And check the file.

[ciw1973]

Writing the string returned by readline-sync directly to a file, and opening it in VS Code, shows the same issues as in my original post:

The hex for this is:

[anseki]

I see.
readlineSync just only receives string from user and output that, it does nothing to the string.
Therefore maybe you had better choose "Readline" that controls the encoding instead, or another module (e.g. prompts).

[ciw1973]

OK, no worries.

[anseki]

😄