Thread: Printing with Unicode characters

I need to print out a Unicode character. I stored it in wchar_t type, and it stores it fine because when I use printf() to print it out and I try %d I get the correct number of the character. But I want to print out the actual character itself and I don't know how to do that (%?). Plus I want to know how to put the character (no assignment, I just type it in the code) in printf() itself but it isn't recognized that way. Maybe I need to use something besides printf()?

man wprintf()

I changed it to wprintf(), but still have a problem. This is the line of code:
wprintf ("This is the hiragana: %c", j);
And this is the error I'm getting:
warning C4133: 'function' : incompatible types - from 'char [25]' to 'const wchar_t *'

Is j a wchar_t? Read the man page, because some of the conversion operators act differently.
What you want is probably
wprintf("This is the hiragana %lc", j);

がんばって！

Yes, it's a wchar_t.
wchar_t j = L'が';
I went ahead and did the change you suggested but I still get the same error. :-/

Read the man page to find out how to use wprintf correctly
http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/ManPages/wprintf-3.html

Ok I did that and the warning's gone now, but in the console window it prints out a question mark.

Boot your computer in Jap mode. Or I think there is an environment variable that you would need to change in your program to set your character set to unicode. Research on unicode some more before attempting this.

Download the http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en PSDK.

What's wrong with this code?

Code:

#include <tchar.h>
#include <wchar.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	char i = '\n';

	wchar_t j = L'が';

        // I have also tried other codepages and checked registry
	SetConsoleOutputCP(65001);

	printf("\nHello SDL User!\n");
	printf ("The codepage is %d\n", GetConsoleOutputCP());
	wprintf (L"This is the hiragana: %lc", j);
	
	scanf_s ("%c", &i);
	return 0;
}

You will have to use a console font which supports hiragana.

Lucida console is a Japanese font?