Unicode Characters

how can I read arabic characters from file?
when i do that i get only one character ???
i think it uses only ASCII, so can anybody help me how to read Unicode??
Operating system? Unicode stuff is currently platform dependent, and for decent comfort using them you will probably have to use third party libraries of some sort (0x will fully support Unicode though).

On windows you can use wide characters (wchar_t) as UTF-16 characters, on most platforms chars are 8 bits so you can mostly use them as UTF-8 characters.
Windows 7, and also I can work on Linux Ubuntu
Visual studio for windows, and NetBeans for Ubuntu

can you tell me how to use third party libraries and what does it means, because am still a beginner

and thank you so much :)
You need to know what encoding was used when the file was written.
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