Reading special characters off a file

Hello to all, kinda new here, but here goes
So I was making a multiple choice quiz program, that reads multiple choice questions off of a file, but I have encountered a problem.
While reading " character or ' character or the rest of those special character that are supposed to be greeted by hackslash, I get some kind of a very weird character when the program runs and display the data read.
So here is my question.
Is there any way I can use getline or some other command to make sure that when it reads the data it actually displays a correct character instead of some weird unknown square or something else?
I have tried everything, but to no avail. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks a lot for your help in advance.

You need to post your source. The smallest example the demonstrates your problems.

Soma

Pretty long but ok

Code:

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getline(quizData, line);
       
        while(line.compare("qend")!=0)
        {
            string assembler = "";
       
            while(line.compare("end")!=0)
            {
                assembler.append(line);
                assembler.append("\n");
                getline(quizData, line);
            }
           
            question[i][b][0] = assembler;
           
            getline(quizData, line);
           
            question[i][b][1] = line;
           
            b++;
           
            getline(quizData, line);
        }

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Anyways I dunno if this makes any sense
But the problem is that when I use getline command and the file contains " character then it will not read correctly it and instead display squares and triangles.
I tried putting hackslash before the quotations marks in hopes that it will fix it, but instead it simply shows hackslash followed by a weird character.
Is there a way to read character by character and then put it together? I am at my wits end here.

O_o

That's not really "The smallest example the demonstrates your problems.".

Have you verified your data?

I'm assuming you are using a GUI editor that uses Unicode, in UTF8, to visually distinguish between the "starting" and "ending" quote characters.

Soma

Yeah I am using notepad++. What should I use then?
Or should I input some kind of other character, in hopes it will bug into the correct one?
And yes you are right unicode is UTF8
Amazing how you figured it out.
You had same error before?

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What should I use then?

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I'm fine with you using whatever you want, but if you want to use the "native", and portable, file handling provided by the C++ standard library you need to save the file as ASCII text.

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You had same error before?

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I've been programming for almost 25 years. I've made virtually every error one can make and still be alive. I also make it a point to learn from the mistakes of others.

Soma

Sorry for a non C++ related question, but how would I save something as a ASCII text?
I tried notepad and notepad++ and gedit and nothing
And looked up google too
Thanks for all your help you gave me so far

You can save the file as ascii in the "save as" dialogue. There should be something for the encoding. Make sure it is set as ANSI. I believe ANSI is a single byte encoding so each character only gets one byte, which would follow the ascii chart.

Cannot speak for the others but gedit should work fine.