Print special characters on windows console

Question

How to print special characters like 'is' and 'ç' on the windows console (printf)?

Answer 1

As you can find on the site: http://linguagensdeprogramacao.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/resolvendo-problema-da-acentuacao-no-dev-c/

To solve this problem just use the command of C regionalization so that not only accentuate the words correctly, but showing dates and times in Portuguese, for example.

This is done using the locale library setlocale command.h. Follow an example of code.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <locale.h>

int main(void)
{
    setlocale(LC_ALL, "Portuguese");
    printf("Alô mundo! \n\n");

    system("PAUSE");
    return 0;
}

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If you still have problems try to change the Command source:

Answer 2

There are three ways to use these special characters in windows :

1. Swiping the code right into the printf: printf("isto \x82"); //imprime isto é

   (This code above assumes the Codepage 850 )

2. Creating a function that uses the above functionality to print the special characters an example the function oprintf who is available with the LGPL license

3. Or as Giovani said, using setlocale.

Note: I suggest not using system("PAUSE"); nor the library when there is no need. (They are in the setlocale example).