Strings with special characters in foreign language

[wtf]

How can I get the computer to cout in a foreign language such as spanish with ñ or german with ö, ä, ü and ß? if I cout these characters in a string, they r all fcked up. and instead have to actually pass the ascii character value, such as 132 for ä, or have a const char a_umlaut = 132.

so I can do something like this:

const char a_umlaut = 132;
cout << "H" << a_umlaut << "tte";

to cout the german word for 'had'
but not like this:

cout << "Hätte";

what gives? I find this incredibly anoying. Is it c++ in general or just codeblocks?

[Bazzy]

It's your terminal emulator.
If you are using cmd to display stdout, you'll have to set up the right code page

[wtf]

¿and how do I do that?

[ne555]

But if I do this char c = 'ñ' gcc yelds

warning: multi-character character constant

and c gets 177 instead of 241. It seems to be system dependent so everything after 127 converts to garbage

[Bazzy]

That depends on the encoding of your source files
Everything after 127 is not ASCII

[wtf]

could I define a macro (somehow) that would override the system whenever I type alt+132 it would instead of simply typing ä it would type " << a_umlaut << " ? ?

[helios]

Maybe, but wouldn't it be easier to just type that, instead? Or you can use '\x84' or '\204'.

std::cout doesn't behave very well with non-ASCII. The results are heavily configuration-dependent.

[wtf]

Gee, why didn't I think of that?