Special characters

I've always had problems outputting special characters on screen (e.g. é, à, ü , ç and such), whatever the language, compiler, etc.

So, is there any way I could correctly print them on screen ?

well i use the ASCII value to do that...



Example

Code:

char ch;
for(int i=0;i<400;i++)
{
ch=i;
cout<<ch;
}

You will get some beeps etc etc . aplhabets and the special characters..

pick the code you want from this program or go to asciitable.com

Code:

#include <iostream.h>

#define NUL 0
#define BEL 7
#define BS 8
#define TAB 9
#define LF 10
#define CR 13
#define SUB 26
#define SPC 32
#define BLK 255
#define ROWS 9
#define COLUMNS 5

int main(void)
{
  const char ASCII_NAMES[ROWS][COLUMNS]={{"NUL \0"}, {"BEL \0"}, {"BS  \0"}, {"TAB \0"},
                                         {"LF  \0"}, {"CR  \0"}, {"SUB \0"}, {"SPC \0"},
                                         {"BLK \0"}
                                        };
  enum AsciiSubscript{MSG_NUL, MSG_BEL, MSG_BS, MSG_TAB, MSG_LF, MSG_CR, MSG_SUB,
                      MSG_SPC, MSG_BLK};

  const unsigned HEX_BASE = 16;
  unsigned AsciiNum = 0;

  printf("    ");

  for(unsigned i = 0; i <= HEX_BASE - 1; i++)
    printf("%02X  ", i);

  printf("\n");

  for(unsigned HexNum = 0; HexNum <= HEX_BASE - 1; HexNum++)
  {
    printf("%X0  ", HexNum);

    for(int Line=0; Line <= HEX_BASE - 1; Line++)
    {
      switch(AsciiNum)
      {
        case NUL : printf("%s", ASCII_NAMES[MSG_NUL]); break;
        case BEL : printf("%s", ASCII_NAMES[MSG_BEL]); break;
        case BS : printf("%s", ASCII_NAMES[MSG_BS]); break;
        case TAB : printf("%s", ASCII_NAMES[MSG_TAB]); break;
        case LF : printf("%s", ASCII_NAMES[MSG_LF]); break;
        case CR : printf("%s", ASCII_NAMES[MSG_CR]); break;
        case SUB : printf("%s",  ASCII_NAMES[MSG_SUB]); break;
        case SPC : printf("%s", ASCII_NAMES[MSG_SPC]); break;
        case BLK : printf("%s", ASCII_NAMES[MSG_BLK]); break;
        default : printf("%c   ", (char)AsciiNum);
      }
      AsciiNum++;
      if(Line == HEX_BASE -1)
        printf("\n");
    }
  }
  getchar();

  return 0;
}