Question

While testing some functions to convert strings between wchar_t and utf8 I met the following weird result with Visual C++ express 2008

std::wcout << L'élève' << std::endl; 

prints out ‘ÚlÞve:’ which is obviously not what is expected.

This is obviously a bug. How can that be ? How am I suppose to deal with such ‘feature’ ?

Answer 1

The C++ compiler does not support Unicode in code files. You have to replace those characters with their escaped versions instead.

Try this:

std::wcout << L'\x00E9l\x00E8ve' << std::endl; 

Also, your console must support Unicode as well.

UPDATE:

It’s not going to produce the desired output in your console, because the console does not support Unicode.