How to use UTF8 characters in C++

[JohnCodding]

What do I need to do to be able to use in C++ UTF8 characters for char * and std::string, or at least for std::string if char * doesn't support it? I'm using std:c++17. I tried the following code to see if it is working without changing anything but it didn't worked and returned ┬┴╩╦≡??Γε?:

#include
#include

int main() {
std::string a = "ÂÁÊËðșțâîă";
std::cout << a;
std::cin.get();
}

[Mircea Neacsu]

Couple of things: 1. UTF8 literal strings are written as this:

std::string a = u8"ÂÁÊËðșțâîă";

2. Support for UTF8 in regular CMD is VERY bad. I haven't tried much in the new Windows terminal. 3. You might find more stuff about UTF8 in my series of articles on CodeProject.

Mircea

[Lost User]

You need to set the correct codepage to print the characters from the appropriate set. See chcp | Microsoft Docs[^]. Code page 65001 works for me.

[JohnCodding]

Adding u8 worked, thanks. As for CMD it was used only as a testing display, I don't need it in the actual app, and for testing I ended up writing to a file to see if it is working. And where I actually used it, it did worked.