Quote:Original post by sprite_hound

Quote:Original post by Lode

Quote:Original post by Kasya

Example:
std::cout << "\u2660"; //black spade
std::cout << "\u2663"; //black club

etc.

That gives indeed those symbols in the Konsole terminal in Linux if I try.

Could anyone else try with his/her Windows flavor? Thanks! :)

Nope, still ?'s for me... (Win 7).

EDIT: This seems to work though:

int main(int, char*[]) {	char heart = '\3';	char diamond = '\4';	char club = '\5';	char spade = '\6';		std::string all = "\3\4\5\6";		std::cout << heart << diamond << club << spade << std::endl;	std::cout << all << std::endl;}

What could be an explanation for that? This is strange... Why would std::cout print characters in different ways in the terminal depending on how you give it as string?

Aww dammit, the '\3' variant shows up wrong in Linux, it becomes a small box with "0003" in it.

Anyway, easily solved by OS-dependent #ifdefs :)

Thanks for the info.

The console subsystem in Windows is a magical and special place. If you're dead set on doing a console application, the best bet is to follow the advice in this and this blog post.

As for narrow output streams like std::cout, they pass through whatever bytes you pass them, so if you feed it UTF-8 encoded text, they will output UTF-8 encoded text. In the case of Linux, if the terminal locale is set to UTF-8, it'll display properly.

In the case of the Windows console, the data displayed will be shown in the current system codepage, unless you've selected another codepage into it.