Thread: Printing Unicode characters

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    Printing Unicode characters

    Hi, everyone. I've been searching for this, but I'm having some difficulties on finding it: how do I display Unicode characters in C in the Windows operating system? For example, I wanted to print the superscript 4, whose code is 2074, as is shown in http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2070.pdf. Thanks in advance!

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    Look into wide chars (type wchar_t, and using wprintf to print).

    Useful link -> Wide-Character Functions : Wide Character Functions « Wide Character String « C Tutorial

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    Thank you, both of you! =]

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