Question

code:

#include <windows.h>

int main() {
  SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8);
  system("echo Ιλιάδα");
}

prints on console: Ιλιάδα
Source is encoded in UTF-8 with BOM.

But if I try: system(L"echo Ιλιάδα");, I get error: error: cannot convert 'const wchar_t*' to 'const char*' for argument '1' to 'int system(const char*)'. And of course I didn’t expect anything else here. Is there any other function that will accept these characters ?

Answer 1

Use _wsystem one for wide strings.