windows console codepage 866

Question

I'm using a recent version of windows 10. When I tried to run client expample code from boost asio and got an expected exception on this line:

catch (const std::exception& e)
{

    std::cerr << e.what() << std::endl;
    return 1;
}

It outputs hieroglyphs on console :

connect: ╧юфъы■ўхэшх эх єёЄрэютыхэю, Є.ъ. ъюэхўэ√щ ъюья№■ЄхЁ юЄтхЁу чряЁюё эр яюфъы■ўхэшх

Default codepage of my console is 866 because i'm using russian windows. So then I changed a codepage to 1251 via

chcp 1251 

message looks fine:

connect: Подключение не установлено, т.к. конечный компьютер отверг запрос на подключение.

I'm just curious is there any workaround to this without any manipulations with chcp?

Answer 1

If you want to do it from C++ code then use SetConsoleOutputCP for it.