Question:
My end goal here is to write some non-latin text output to console in Windows via a C++ program.
cmd.exe gets me nowhere, so I got the latest, shiny version of PowerShell (that supports unicode). I’ve verified that I can
- type-in non-unicode characters and
- see non-unicode console output from windows commands (like “dir”)
for example, I have this file, “가.txt” (가 is the first letter in the korean alphabet) and I can get an output like this:
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PS P:\reference\unicode> dir .\가.txt Directory: P:\reference\unicode Mode LastWriteTime Length Name ---- ------------- ------ ---- -a--- 1/12/2010 8:54 AM 0 가.txt |
So far so good. But writing to console using a C++ program doesn’t work.
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int main() { wchar_t text[] = {0xAC00, 0}; // 가 has code point U+AC00 in unicode wprintf(L"%s", text); // this prints a single question mark: "?" } |
I don’t know what I’m missing. The fact that I can type-in and see 가 on the console seems to indicate that I have the three needed pieces (unicode support, font and glyph), but I must be mistaken.
I’ve also tried “chcp” without any luck. Am I doing something wrong in my C++ program?
Thanks!
Answer:
From the printf docs:
wprintf and printf behave identically
if the stream is opened in ANSI mode.
Check out this blog post. It has this nice short little listing:
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#include #include #include int main(void) { _setmode(_fileno(stdout), _O_U16TEXT); wprintf(L"\x043a\x043e\x0448\x043a\x0430 \x65e5\x672c\x56fd\n"); return 0; } |