Thread: International Phonetic ALphabet in C

Originally Posted by rivkyfried1

wondering if i should install linux as my operating system since flp1969 said that the code that he suggests works in linux.
does anyone have any thoughts on that?

Windows is a weird environment... As I said, use Console API functions to print on Windows Console: WriteConsoleW works fine:

Code:

#include <windows.h>

int main( void )
{
  HANDLE hc;
  WCHAR msg[] = L"\u014b\n";

  hc = GetStdHandle( STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE );
  WriteConsoleW( hc, msg, ( sizeof msg - 1 ) / sizeof msg[0], NULL, 0 );
}

Linux/UNIXes tend to use UTF-8 as default charset on terminal, nowadays. Windows Concole use WINDOWS-1252 (singlebyte charset -- that's why you probably get K as output from wprintf on Windows Console, because U+014B (ŋ) is encoded as 0x014b (or 0x4b, 0x01 and 0x4b is 'K').

Originally Posted by christop

I've had to deal briefly with WCHAR and TCHAR strings in Windows. I imagine I'd develop PTSD if I had to do that on a regular basis.

Well... I believe I would have some kind of brain injury if I had to deal with WINOWS in a regular basis... Take a look:

Code:

// test.c
#include <windows.h>

int main( void )
{
  HANDLE hc;
  static const WCHAR msg1[] = L"\u20ac\n";  // EURO (U+20AC) -- ok!
  static const WCHAR msg2[] = L"\U0001d11e\n"; // SOL CLEEF (U+1D11E) -- doesn't work!

  hc = GetStdHandle( STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE );
  WriteConsoleW( hc, msg1, ( sizeof msg1 - 1 ) / sizeof msg1[0], NULL, 0 );
  WriteConsoleW( hc, msg2, ( sizeof msg2 - 1 ) / sizeof msg2[0], NULL, 0 );
}

Compiling with MSVC (to not have any doubt about this):



Seems WINDOWS don't deal very well with surrogates.