How do you enable european letters in c++ application console?

Asked Jan 07 '15 at 11:51

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I'm writing a simple console application but every accented letter like

è

(used in italian) turns into a different symbol whenever I output it in the console.

Example follows

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{

    int y1 = 20;
    cout << "The number is "<< y1;
    cout << "\nIl numero è "<< y1 <<"\n";
    system("pause");
    return 0;
}

How do I tell the compiler I'm using those symbols?

edited Jan 07 '15 at 12:26

Martin Ba

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What OS are you using? – John Zwinck Jan 07 '15 at 11:52
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This most likely have nothing to do with the compiler or your program, and everything to do with the console/terminal program. Not all console/terminal programs can show Unicode or extended ASCII (or other extended character sets). – Some programmer dude Jan 07 '15 at 11:56
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If you're on Windows you can set console codepage with `chcp` (DOS command) – w.b Jan 07 '15 at 11:56
Also read about `wcout`. – Bartek Banachewicz Jan 07 '15 at 12:09
See, e.g.: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1259084/what-encoding-code-page-is-cmd-exe-using – Martin Ba Jan 07 '15 at 12:28
Configure your system & terminal to use UTF-8 – Basile Starynkevitch Jan 07 '15 at 12:28
@BasileStarynkevitch You also have to be sure that the compiler encodes string literals using UTF-8. (In the past, this wasn't the case for g++, for example.) If his only target is Italian, a useful alternative would be ISO 8859-1 (which is what g++ used in the past, and I think is what VS uses); then use code page 1252. – James Kanze Jan 07 '15 at 13:11
I guess the caveat is just to avoid using cout and use just wcout, after setting the mode to _O_U16TEXT. – Muteking Jan 07 '15 at 14:16

How do you enable european letters in c++ application console?

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