I am writting a simple C++ programm and I want to generate outputs to the console but with the functions 'fwrite' and 'printf'. However, I can't print special characters like 'á', 'é', ... Here is a simple code:
printf("Special character: 'ñ'");
Were the output was ±
I found that those characters are printed as ascii but they were encoded in Utf8. I don't know how to make this output visible correctly, I'm using the Microsoft Visual Studio. Any help?
I already tried SetConsoleOutputCP(65001); but nothing happended. I also tried WideCharToMultiByte(codepage, 0, unicode, lenW, 0, 0, NULL, NULL); but it wrote 2 characters for each one.
On my system the console seems to use ASCII for output as well. I'm not sure if there is a class that will convert the characters, but you could use the Character Map(Programs/Accessories/SystemTools), and set the character set to DOS and the language of your omputer. That will give you the hex number for the ASCII code.
wChar_t c = 0x99;
wcout << c;
will output Ö on my system.
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