Question

I’m making a text based adventure game. I want to have the game name (marooned) in large or made out of lines. How can I do this?

An example of what I want is something like this:

╔═╗╔═╗───╔╗────────╔╗────╔╗─╔╗──╔╗╔╗────╔═══╦╗
║║╚╝║║───║║────────║║────║║─║║──║║║║────╚╗╔╗║║
║╔╗╔╗╠══╦╣║╔╦══╦╗─╔╣║╔══╗║╚═╝╠══╣║║║╔══╗─║║║║╚═╦══╦══╦══╗*
║║║║║║╔╗╠╣╚╝╣╔╗║║─║║║║╔╗║║╔═╗║║═╣║║║║╔╗║─║║║║╔╗║╔╗║╔╗║║═╣
║║║║║║╔╗║║╔╗╣╔╗║╚═╝║╚╣╔╗║║║─║║║═╣╚╣╚╣╔╗║╔╝╚╝║║║║╚╝║╚╝║║═╣
╚╝╚╝╚╩╝╚╩╩╝╚╩╝╚╩═╗╔╩═╩╝╚╝╚╝─╚╩══╩═╩═╩╝╚╝╚═══╩╝╚╩══╣╔═╩══╝
───────────────╔═╝║───────────────────────────────║║
───────────────╚══╝───────────────────────────────╚╝

but more visible. And also when this is compiled it comes out in ?‘s. So I need the text to be compiler friendly.

Answer 1

On Windows, go with wide string literals:

wchar_t * titleStr= L"╔═╗╔═╗───╔╗────────╔╗────╔╗─╔╗──╔╗╔╗────╔═══╦╗\n"
                    L"║║╚╝║║───║║────────║║────║║─║║──║║║║────╚╗╔╗║║\n"
                    L"║╔╗╔╗╠══╦╣║╔╦══╦╗─╔╣║╔══╗║╚═╝╠══╣║║║╔══╗─║║║║╚═╦══╦══╦══╗*\n"
                    L"║║║║║║╔╗╠╣╚╝╣╔╗║║─║║║║╔╗║║╔═╗║║═╣║║║║╔╗║─║║║║╔╗║╔╗║╔╗║║═╣ \n"
                    L"║║║║║║╔╗║║╔╗╣╔╗║╚═╝║╚╣╔╗║║║─║║║═╣╚╣╚╣╔╗║╔╝╚╝║║║║╚╝║╚╝║║═╣ \n"
                    L"╚╝╚╝╚╩╝╚╩╩╝╚╩╝╚╩═╗╔╩═╩╝╚╝╚╝─╚╩══╩═╩═╩╝╚╝╚═══╩╝╚╩══╣╔═╩══╝ \n"
                    L"───────────────╔═╝║───────────────────────────────║║ \n"
                    L"───────────────╚══╝───────────────────────────────╚╝\n"
std::wcout<<titleStr;