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Thomas
Thomas

Reputation: 6196

Cannot print special characters to console

When I try to output "ᕦ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ᕤ" to console it's just a bunch of question marks.

I have tried messing with System.Console.OutputEncoding with no success.

How can I achieve my utmost important goal of printing the "ᕦ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ᕤ".

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3546

Answers (1)

RobIII
RobIII

Reputation: 8831

This works reasonably well (as in: the shape is more recognizable):

Console.OutputEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;
Console.WriteLine("ᕦ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ᕤ");
Console.ReadLine();

But you need to change the console's default font to something like consolas. With font changed to Consolas it looks like:

Screenshot / proof

With the default font it looks like:

Screenshot / proof

And if you change the font but don't set the output encoding it looks like:

Screenshot / proof

The console's default encoding is OEM Multilingual Latin 1; Western European (DOS) e.g. "IBM850" or OEM United States e.g. "IBM437".

However, as suggested in other comments: don't. Just don't. Here's why.

Upvotes: 3

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