Re: Need help with printing Unicode! (C++ on CentOS)
Zerex71 wrote:
I'm sure this has been addressed before but I've hunted all over the
web and no one seems to provide a comprehensive answer. I just want
to do one thing: Under CentOS, in a simple C++ program, I'd like to be
able to print Unicode characters to a console output. For example,
I'd like to print the musical flat, natural, and sharp signs.
Here's what I've done so far:
1. Using Eclipse, created a small C++ console project.
2. Declare three chars, each of type wchar_t, and assigned them their
Unicode values (0x266d, 0x266e, 0x266f).
3. Attempted to print them out using wprintf().
You can't output raw unicode values and expect your terminal emulator
to understand them. You have to output them *encoded* with the same
encoding scheme as your terminal. Usually this will be UTF-8.
Either output the encoded values directly, or use an UTF-8 encoding
library to convert your raw unicode values into UTF-8 codes. One such
library is, for example: http://utfcpp.sourceforge.net/
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