UTF-8 in DEV-C++

[JacKal]

Hi everybody!

I would really appreciate any help on this. I have googled for an hour without a result. Few different hints but no one understandable enough.

I want to use Latvian or UTF-8(Unicode) characters in Dev-C++. Can anybody give me a hint how to do this?

[helios]

What do you mean? Use UTF-8 in the source or output UTF-8 to the console?

[JacKal]

Out to the console && from the read from the console

[Disch]

On Linux I believe you can output utf-8 to the console directly by passing it to cout.

On Windows, you're not so fortunate. Here's a big thread about this very problem. I found a solution that worked on my machine near the end of it:

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

[JacKal]

Unfortunately that last code posted in your discussion didn't work for me..

OK, then I'll just use Ubuntu.

[Disch]

Did you try WriteConsoleA instead of WriteConsole?

And did you try this test to make sure UTF-8 is working right?:

std::strcmp("я","\321\217")

(that should return 0)

[ganjaman73]

can you really write "я" in Dev-Cpp ? I can't write unicode characters in its text editor, just "?"
Is there an option to set text editor in unicode ?