Problem with inserting Character.

Hi all, I'm new to C programming so be gentle with me.

I have had some assignment work to do. On this i have finished the code and everything works, so dont worry im not asking for the solution because of student type lazyness!

I have one line in my code

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printf("Please insert the value in £: ");

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I want the output text to read "Please insert the value in £", but when i run what is contained in that line it converts the £ into u-hat...on either side of the colon. There seems to be nothing on this on searching my c books or the interweb. I would prefer to keep this simple'ish if there is a way of doing it.

Question - Is there a simpler method of inserting £ so that the user knows which currency to be inserting.

Thanks in advance!

It depends on what your char set is set up to handle. Try this:

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printf("\n Please insert the value in %c: ",  156);

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Use the Unicode codepoint for it, i.e.

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printf("\u00A3\n");

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Originally Posted by Adak

It depends on what your char set is set up to handle. Try this:

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printf("\n Please insert the value in %c: ",  156);

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That did the trick, many thanks! Where do you get the 156 from? Is this an Extended ASCII table or from somewhere else?

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Originally Posted by Caerleon

That did the trick, many thanks! Where do you get the 156 from? Is this an Extended ASCII table or from somewhere else?

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nadroj suggestion was better.

Relevant discussion: http://cboard.cprogramming.com/c-pro...E-console.html

gg

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Originally Posted by MisterIO

nadroj suggestion was better.

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I tried both solutions, but was looking for a simpler method as my professor needs to read the source code aswell as see the output.

With the second suggestion i dont think i put it in the proper place as it errored, so i used the first suggested method. Thanks anyway.

Your highest probability of success - for reasons listed in the link I provided - is the following:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <locale.h>

const wchar_t pound = L'\u00a3';

int main()
{
    setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
    printf("pound = %lc\n", pound);
    return 0;
}

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gg