How to print Unicode text on console window using C/C++

In this video, I will show you how to print out unicode text using console applications on Windows in C/C++

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[yakinbama]

Words cannot express how grateful I am to you for this. EXACTLY what I needed. Thank you thank you thank you!!

[mohammadismailhossain]

Thanks a lot. I watched so many videos but none could give me the solution. This video gave me the exact process! <3

[zenor]

Great video! I went through countless forums and no one could give a good answer. You are great.

[roy]

Thank you so much... so much nonsense on the internet it's unbelievable... Finally an explanation which is to the point and actually works.

[Mackarrao]

Thanks a lot brother, just what i need for my project. Fantastic Video

[leonardo]

Thanks a loooot bro! I've been searching how to do this for hours

[VJ-tdoc]

This video was helpful, but...when i tried some other character like for example cyrylic 'В' which is U+0412, it gives me '?' on the output, why is that so, i tried some other letters and they don't work as well, i thought this should work for every character, is there a way to fix this so it does work?

[anguslam]

is it possible to switch back from unicode to the normal character?

[eduardooliveira]

Hey guys! This helped me a lot! But I've still got an issue. How can I print those characters in a file? (As we would do with fprintf...)

[theheight]

Thanks a lot. It was very helpful to me.. :)

[swagnikroychoudhury]

Was wondering how can I go back (in the same program) to using the regular


printf("blahblah");


after I declare


_setmode(_fileno(stdout), _O_U16TEXT);


This would help me switch back and forth between special unicode characters and the standard c++ characters.

[departition]

for me nothing prints out, it's odd cuz this started happening out of nowhere, I used the exact same code and it still does it, I know I didn't do anything wrong

[FiftiesDad]

Thank you very much for your help. Why is this so difficult to find? Just subscribed to you.

[asheeshmathur]

Just now bought your course on Udemy, include this lecture in that course

[slawclips]

who else got defeated by the telegram noise xD

[jenselstner]

Unicode ist not what Windows prints! No OS ever printed Unicode. What will be printed as a "wide character" is just UTF-16 and UTF-16 is not Unicode. UTF-16 is a (loosely translated) Unicode Transformation Format!

[subhajitdey]

It's not working for 5 digit unicode.
Please give some solution.
By the way thank you for these amazing video ... 👍🙂🙂🙂

[justcurious]

why we can't use cha16_t and char32_t to store multibyte charcters it seems only works with wchar-t

[VictorPeraltaGomez]

This example was useful, but for some unknown reasons I was unable to print some unicode characters, like this one 🚗. I tried with several options but I never could, the same program worked fine on Mac and Linux but on Windows it just did not. Then I found this API on MSDN

SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8);

and after that it worked well even with the standard output stream (Non wide-characters).
SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8);
const auto hearth=u8"\u2764";
std::cout << "Unicode!!" << hearth << "\n";
const char* s1 = "😇 = ";
const auto smile1=u8"\U0001F607";
const char* s2 = "😉 = ";
const auto smile2=u8"\U0001F609";
const auto car= u8"\U0001F697";
std::cout << car << "\n";
std::cout << s1 << smile1 <<"\n";
std::cout << s2 << smile2 << "\n";
std::cout << "Kangi characters: " << u8"\u5200 \u5201 \u5202 \u5203 \u5204 \u5205 \u5206 \u5207\n";
std::cout << "Corazones " << u8"\u2766 \u2661 \u2665 \u2764 \u2767 \u2619 \u2765 \u2763\n";
Produces this output at the console and also at wsl.
Unicode!!❤
🚗
😇 = 😇
😉 = 😉
Kangi characters: 刀 刁 刂 刃 刄 刅 分 切
Corazones ❦ ♡ ♥ ❤ ❧ ☙ ❥ ❣
Hope this information will be usuful to someone

[mndeokyi]

Then How can I print Unicode characters by value?