add example for reading a line from the terminal, non-blocking

Handles utf8, and character width

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/examples/compat.lua b/examples/compat.lua
index c00d44a..a59d964 100644
--- a/examples/compat.lua
+++ b/examples/compat.lua
@@ -5,12 +5,15 @@ local sys = require "system"
 
 
 
-if sys.is_windows then
+if sys.windows then
   -- Windows holds multiple copies of environment variables, to ensure `getenv`
   -- returns what `setenv` sets we need to use the `system.getenv` instead of
   -- `os.getenv`.
   os.getenv = sys.getenv  -- luacheck: ignore
 
+  -- Set console output to UTF-8 encoding.
+  sys.setconsoleoutputcp(65001)
+
   -- Set up the terminal to handle ANSI escape sequences on Windows.
   if sys.isatty(io.stdout) then
     sys.setconsoleflags(io.stdout, sys.getconsoleflags(io.stdout) + sys.COF_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING)