How to produce Euro symbol in C?

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Please give me a sample C program to produce the euro sysmbol. I'm using windows keyboard and program needs to be compiled in linux.

Update: Actually I need Euro symbol as a string and need to concatenate it with amount string.

I'm having Dell Latitude D620 laptop and tried using Alt+4, Alt+5, etc.. None of them prints the euro sysmbol.

Iirc on Unix-likes the character set and character encoding to use depends on the locale, so do `setlocale` first with an appropriate argument and then just output U+20AC in the correct encoding. — Joey, Jan 27 '11 at 08:07
[This](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_character#C.2FC.2B.2B) might give you an idea on how to implement this. — Lucas, Jan 27 '11 at 08:57

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 09:58

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This is entirely character encoding specific.

This question should sum up why there is no straight answer to your question:

Hex representation of Euro Symbol €

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unwind · Answer 2 · 2011-01-27T12:27:59.303

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The Unicode standard code-point for the Euro sign (€) is U+20AC.

If your system is running using UTF-8 as its native encoding, you can represent this glyph using the string "\xE2\x82\xAC". The encoding uses three bytes to represent the 16-bit value of the code-point.

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 27 '11 at 08:06

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Use "\u20AC"; this is UTF-8 encoding of Euro sign. More info here.

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I think this is only the UCS code point of "€" and not the actual UTF-8 encoding. – Lucas Jan 27 '11 at 08:56
C does not support \u in strings to embed Unicode code-points. – unwind Jan 27 '11 at 12:30

How to produce Euro symbol in C?

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