Letting C++ program show special characters such as æ, þ, ó

Hey guys, I want my program being able to print out special characters such as þ, ó, æ, í, á ... and so on. I know I can do this by:

Code:

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#include <iostream>

int main()
{
    std::cout << static_cast<char> (-126); // This would print out the character é.
}

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So, -126 is the number for é. What I can't figure out is, what number is for "þ" f.x. Help?

std::cout << (int)L'&#254;';

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Elysia

std::cout << (int)L'þ';

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If I do that, my compiler, Code::Blocks says: "converting to execution character set: Illegal byte sequence"

Any other ideas?

I suspect you aren't using unicode files. Visual Studio compiles it fine (as it should), and gives the result 254.
But you should probably use a constant:

const wchar_t MySymbol = L'&#254;';

I'm running Code::Blocks and I just have those lines of code which I told you first about.

I think this has something to do with the font the cmd is using, I tried letting it print with the number 254 like you told me about, an it returned a box (in cmd). So, do I have to tell the program to use different font for this character?

Another thing, I tried typing &#254; into cmd and it came _. Also, If I tried writing &#240;, it came d. So it's pretty sure to me it has something to do with the font. But how to fix this?

Did you print a unicode character as opposed to a char?
Ie
std::cout << (wchar_t)254;
...instead of...
std::cout << (char)254;

If I do std::cout << static_cast<wchar> (254), it says that "wchar" was not declared

Also, std::cout << (wchar_t)254 just gives me "254"

Hmm, I think I remember that GCC does not fully support unicode. You may have to change compiler.

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Originally Posted by Elysia

Hmm, I think I remember that GCC does not fully support unicode. You may have to change compiler.

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Any clues what compiler? :D

Visual C++ is another popular one.
(Comes with Visual Studio.)
Code::Blocks can utilize that compiler, as well, if you don't want to use the IDE.

How would I utilize Code::Blocks to do that?

Someone else should know. Code::Blocks is not my IDE of choice and thus I am not very familiar with it.

Allright, I'm installing Visual Studio. All I have to do is to copy+paste my program into that compiler, let it compile and I'm good?

It should. It works for me.

I've struggled a lot with this as well... It seems that the Windows terminal works on UTF-32, while the Linux terminal works on UTF-8. Try this, for instance, to show a few characters:

Code:

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#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
        cout << "\xe2\x82\xac\xc2\xb6\xc3\xbf" << endl;
}

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