How I can print the wchar_t values to console?
Example:
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
wchar_t en[] = L"Hello";
wchar_t ru[] = L"Привет"; //Russian language
cout << ru
<< endl
<< en;
return 0;
}
This code only prints HEX-values like adress. How to print the wchar_t string?
Edit: This doesn’t work if you are trying to write text that cannot be represented in your default locale. :-(
Use std::wcout
instead of std::cout
.
wcout << ru << endl << en;
Can I suggest std::wcout
?
So, something like this:
std::cout << "ASCII and ANSI" << std::endl;
std::wcout << L"INSERT MULTIBYTE WCHAR* HERE" << std::endl;
You might find more information in a related question here.
You cannot portably print wide strings using standard C++ facilities.
Instead you can use the open-source {fmt} library to portably print Unicode text. For example (https://godbolt.org/z/nccb6j):
#include <fmt/core.h>
int main() {
const char en[] = "Hello";
const char ru[] = "Привет";
fmt::print("{}\n{}\n", ru, en);
}
prints
Привет
Hello
This requires compiling with the /utf-8
compiler option in MSVC.
For comparison, writing to wcout
on Linux:
wchar_t en[] = L"Hello";
wchar_t ru[] = L"Привет";
std::wcout << ru << std::endl << en;
may transliterate the Russian text into Latin (https://godbolt.org/z/za5zP8):
Privet
Hello
This particular issue can be fixed by switching to a locale that uses UTF-8 but a similar problem exists on Windows that cannot be fixed just with standard facilities.
Disclaimer: I'm the author of {fmt}.