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std::string s("??<");
std::cout << s << std::endl;
Why does that output { instead of ??<
I’m using Visual Studio 2008. I’m assume it’s encoding it but why and what is the encoding called if that is what’s happening?
This little %#$^*! caused me to look for a bug in my (unit test) code for 30 minutes before I figured out my string was mangled!! 🙁
Because of trigraphs.
These are the supported trigraphs, from the Wikipedia page:
??=→#??/→\??'→^??(→[??)→]??!→|??<→{??>→}??-→~For Visual Studio, according to the documentation trigraphs are turned off by default (sensibly enough), so check your project/makefiles.