W343-3 - Revision history

Ray Chason: /* Cause of the bug */ Update link to Cmder

2026-07-20T00:40:44Z

‎Cause of the bug: Update link to Cmder

Ray Chason: /* Nature of the bug */ The link to the screenshot is broken; recover from the Wayback Machine and include it directly

2026-07-20T00:28:12Z

‎Nature of the bug: The link to the screenshot is broken; recover from the Wayback Machine and include it directly

Ray Chason: Update link to patch

2023-12-21T01:36:12Z

Update link to patch

Ray Chason: All users of 3.4.3 on Windows 10 should patch for this bug

2019-08-30T02:28:19Z

All users of 3.4.3 on Windows 10 should patch for this bug

Ray Chason: Raster fonts can be set on Windows 10, but the bug is fixed

2019-08-28T23:15:49Z

Raster fonts can be set on Windows 10, but the bug is fixed

Ray Chason: /* Cause of the bug */ Bug appears to be moot on Windows 10

2019-08-24T02:04:31Z

‎Cause of the bug: Bug appears to be moot on Windows 10

Ray Chason: /* Cause of the bug */ Built-in command window only

2016-03-17T05:11:09Z

‎Cause of the bug: Built-in command window only

Ray Chason: /* Patch */ Fixed in 3.6.0

2016-01-01T05:32:08Z

‎Patch: Fixed in 3.6.0

Ray Chason: Bug confirmed on Windows 8.1. Workaround is present in 3.6.0, confirmed working. This page is now historic.

2016-01-01T05:27:09Z

Bug confirmed on Windows 8.1. Workaround is present in 3.6.0, confirmed working. This page is now historic.

Ray Chason: Bug confirmed on Windows 8

2013-09-13T04:52:37Z

Bug confirmed on Windows 8

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 * The version of Windows is Windows NT or one of its descendants, no later than Windows 8.1.  The bug is confirmed to exist on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. It is confirmed to be fixed on Windows 10 (but see the note below on Windows 10).
-* The built-in command shell window is used. Alternate command shell windows are available; [http://cmder.net/ Cmder], in particular, is confirmed ''not'' to have the bug.
+* The built-in command shell window is used. Alternate command shell windows are available; [http://cmder.app/ Cmder], in particular, is confirmed ''not'' to have the bug.
 * A bitmap font, rather than Lucida Console, is selected.
 * The command shell is running in a window, rather than full screen.  Windows Vista and later do not support full screen mode in the console, and so this item will always be true for those versions of Windows.

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 == Nature of the bug ==
-The bug has been reported on [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/browse_thread/thread/4ba778741135464e Polish] and Russian editions of Windows 2000 and on a [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/browse_thread/thread/8eea5ab560b85b7b Czech] version of Windows XP.  It has been [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/browse_frm/thread/6bd4af64d16878f6 duplicated] on an American Windows XP by changing a language setting.  A [http://amiro.republika.pl/nethack/screen1.png screenshot] is available.
+The bug has been reported on [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/browse_thread/thread/4ba778741135464e Polish] and Russian editions of Windows 2000 and on a [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/browse_thread/thread/8eea5ab560b85b7b Czech] version of Windows XP.  It has been [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/browse_frm/thread/6bd4af64d16878f6 duplicated] on an American Windows XP by changing a language setting.
 Bug W343-3 really comprises two distinct and unrelated bugs.  One is a simple character set issue:  many non-USA PCs are configured with different character sets, and seven symbols may look different.  This issue is more fully detailed in the [[IBMgraphics]] article.

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   |name=Win32 locales fix
   |author=Ray Chason
-  |download=http://bilious.alt.org/?download=313
+  |download=http://nhpatchdb.alt.org/?download=313
   |bilious=313
 }}
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 * [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/browse_thread/thread/8abe3cd0e85e5a09 Part 4] is a description of each change the patch makes.
-The [[Bilious Patch Database]] has a simpler form of this patch, that works around the faulty API but does not alter the IBMgraphics, [http://bilious.alt.org/?313 here].  This patch also fixes [[W343-4]].
+The [[NetHack Patch Database]] has a simpler form of this patch, that works around the faulty API but does not alter the IBMgraphics, [http://nhpatchdb.alt.org/?313 here].  This patch also fixes [[W343-4]].
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 The bug occurs when four conditions are met:
-* The version of Windows is Windows NT or one of its descendants, no later than Windows 8.1.  The bug is confirmed to exist on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. It is confirmed to be fixed on Windows 10.
+* The version of Windows is Windows NT or one of its descendants, no later than Windows 8.1.  The bug is confirmed to exist on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. It is confirmed to be fixed on Windows 10 (but see the note below on Windows 10).
 * The built-in command shell window is used. Alternate command shell windows are available; [http://cmder.net/ Cmder], in particular, is confirmed ''not'' to have the bug.
 * A bitmap font, rather than Lucida Console, is selected.
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 No API other than WriteConsoleOutputCharacterA is known to be affected.  In particular, the Unicode variant WriteConsoleOutputCharacterW works correctly.
 == Versions affected ==

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 The bug occurs when four conditions are met:
-* The version of Windows is Windows NT or one of its descendants.  The bug is confirmed to exist on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. The Windows 10 console appears not to support bitmap fonts, and so the conditions for the bug cannot be created.
+* The version of Windows is Windows NT or one of its descendants, no later than Windows 8.1.  The bug is confirmed to exist on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. It is confirmed to be fixed on Windows 10.
 * The built-in command shell window is used. Alternate command shell windows are available; [http://cmder.net/ Cmder], in particular, is confirmed ''not'' to have the bug.
 * A bitmap font, rather than Lucida Console, is selected.

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 == Patch ==
-A [[patch]] is available to fix this bug; but no binaries or variants other than [[Spanish NetHack]] are known to incorporate it.
+The bug is fixed in [[NetHack 3.6.0]]. A [[patch]] is available to fix this bug in [[NetHack 3.4.3]]; but no binaries or variants other than [[Spanish NetHack]] are known to incorporate it.
 The patch fixes the API issue by detecting when it is running on an NT-based version of Windows, and using the Unicode API instead, avoiding the Windows bug.  It fixes the character set issue as well (see [[IBMgraphics]]) by allowing less-extensive variants of IBMgraphics to be set, avoiding the characters that can vary among code pages.

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-|'''W343-3''' designates a [[bugs in NetHack 3.4.3#W343-3|bug]] that affects the [[Microsoft Windows]] version of [[NetHack 3.4.3]].  The [[DevTeam]] lists this bug as fixed in the next release.  The bug is listed as:
+|'''W343-3''' designates a [[bugs in NetHack 3.4.3#W343-3|bug]] that affects the [[Microsoft Windows]] version of [[NetHack 3.4.3]].  It is fixed in [[NetHack 3.6.0]].  The bug is listed as:
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 The bug occurs when four conditions are met:
-* The version of Windows is Windows NT or one of its descendants.  The bug is confirmed to exist on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.
+* The version of Windows is Windows NT or one of its descendants.  The bug is confirmed to exist on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.
 * A bitmap font, rather than Lucida Console, is selected.
 * The command shell is running in a window, rather than full screen.  Windows Vista and later do not support full screen mode in the console, and so this item will always be true for those versions of Windows.
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 The [[Bilious Patch Database]] has a simpler form of this patch, that works around the faulty API but does not alter the IBMgraphics, [http://bilious.alt.org/?313 here].  This patch also fixes [[W343-4]].
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