Display Slovene letters in a string

[Mike Teavee]

Hello, I'm new here!

I've just started C++ and I'm using Code:Blocks for now.

I want to 'cout' the letter Č from the Slovene alphabet. I've been searching online for a while with no luck.

I found this
http://www.ascii-codes.com/cp852.html

...and Č is on the list. I tried \xAC but had a weird char pop up instead. What am I doing wrong?

[Peter87]

It depends on what you are using. On Linux you normally don't need to do anything special.

// this works fine for me
std::cout << "Č" << std::endl;

On Windows it's a bit more problematic. I'm not sure exactly how to do it.

[Mike Teavee]

I'm using Windows 8. After some online research, I'm guessing that since my programs run in Windows command prompt, it can only do the DOS special characters.

Could I easily make programs displaying 'Č' if I used another editor/compiler such as Visual C++ or something?

Maybe I should invent Č++ ...(bad joke)

[giblit]

Have you tried these? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1371012/how-do-i-print-utf-8-from-c-console-application-on-windows

or http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/windows/9797/

[Mike Teavee]

Thanks for the link, i tried the code but I think I'm still restricted by the DOS standard char set. On a side note, I tried installing Code Blocks editor on my wife's MacBook. The 'Č' outputs just fine using my original program, though Code Blocks spat out an error about using an illegal character.