Need help on unicode in VisualC++

Im trying to get cout to understand swedish characters, anyone know howto?
If I prompt the user to write to cin.getline(), and then write it to the std.output it works fine.

Like this:
char str[30];
cin.getline(str, 30);
cout << str;

But if I assign a constant C-string to a variable, and try cout, it doesnt show the right characters.

Like this:
char str[30] = "something with swedish characters";
cout << str;

I have tried with wcout and wchar_t, but it doesnt help, any help is greatly apreciated.
TIA!

hi
just use the L prefix for your unicode text constants e.g.

wchar_t str[30] = L"something with swedish characters";

damyan

Thanks, but I have tried that , but it prints all swedish characters like carbage.

Hi
another way to avoid it is to use the escape sequences instead of the actual characters that don't print correctly.

e.g.
\206 å
\204 ä
\224 ö

char * someText = "som\206thing wit\204 wird chars in it";

Thank YOU