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I am wrining a program to print a report, and I need to display the pound-sign character (£) on this report. Each instance of this character prints out as a space (I am using the fprintf() function to print). I assume this is because the character is not in the ASCII table. How can I print this character? Do I need to include a certain header file?
It's char # 156 I think...Code:#include <stdio.h>
int main ()
{
int c;
int i;
// There are 256 ascii characters, from 0 to 255.
// A lot of the values just can't be displayed. For example, there is
// the newline character, a backspace character, a tab character, and
// probably the most entertaining one, the beep character.
for (c = 0; c < 256; )
{
// Adjust the stopping value for i accordingly.
for (i = 0; i < (80) / 7 && c < 256; i++, c++)
{
printf ("%3d %c ", c, c);
}
// Depending on stopping value, this may or may not be commented out.
printf ("\n");
}
return 0;
}
According to my old (yet trusty) ASCII chart, the pound symbol has a decimal value of 156. However, my computer uses Unicode instead of ASCII. I used this program to show me all of the symbols available with my font:
You may be experiencing a similar problem, where your system's font doesn't use extended ASCII.Code:#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
unsigned char c;
for ( c=0; ; c++ )
{
printf( "%03d %c\n", c, c );
if ( c == 255 )
break;
}
return (0);
}