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Dmitrii Dovgopolyi
Dmitrii Dovgopolyi

Reputation: 6301

How to print unicode symbol to console

I want to print ▌ symbol to console. I tried

printf(L"▌");

and 

wchar_t t = L'\u2588';
wprintf(L"%c\n", t);

But i get only '?' in result. I use Visual Studio 2012

Update

if I set the locale to en-US

setlocale(LC_ALL, "en-US");

I get | for █, + for ╫ and _ for ▄

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1242

Answers (1)

Dmitrii Dovgopolyi
Dmitrii Dovgopolyi

Reputation: 6301

To enable unicode in console we should use _setmode(_fileno(stdout), _O_U16TEXT);

#include <stdio.h>
#include <io.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
void main()
{
    _setmode(_fileno(stdout), _O_U16TEXT);
    wprintf(L"█");
}

Upvotes: 1

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