Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
How do I make the following program work with Visual C++ in Windows, using narrow character string?
<code> #include <stdio.h> #include <fcntl.h> // _O_U8TEXT #include <io.h> // _setmode, _fileno #include <windows.h>
int main() { //SetConsoleOutputCP( 65001 ); //_setmode( _fileno( stdout ), _O_U8TEXT ); printf( "Blåbærsyltetøy! 日本国 кошка!\n" ); } </code>
Output to a console wasn't our topic so far (and is not one of my strong points), but the specific problem with this program is that the embedded literal is not UTF-8, as the warning C4566 tells us, so there is no way for you to get UTF-8 in the output. (You should be able to set VC++'s code page to 65001, but I don't think you can.) int main() { printf( utf8_encode( L"кошка" ).c_str() ); } This is not a practical problem for "proper" applications because Russian text literals should always come from the equivalent of gettext and never be embedded in code. int main() { printf( gettext( "cat" ).c_str() ); } So, yes, I admit that you can't easily write a portable application (or a command-line utility) that has its Russian texts hardcoded, if that's your point. But you can write a command-line utility that can take кошка.txt as input and work properly, which is what I've been saying, and what sparked the original debate (argv[1]).