Displaying Unicode/ASCII Characters on console or window

Question

I couldn't display a 'bullet' of character code DEC 149 which can be found on ASCII Chart.

cout << char(149) << endl;

it comes out as ò on console window. I know a few characters from charmap that I'd like to use but how would i know their character codes?

possible duplicate of [Output Unicode to Console Using C++](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2849010/output-unicode-to-console-using-c) — kennytm, Jun 18 '10 at 19:25
What platform is this? This is a console issue, not a C++ issue. — David Thornley, Jun 18 '10 at 20:02
Tagged accordingly. However, that does make this a duplicate of the question KennyTM cited. — David Thornley, Jun 18 '10 at 20:37

Peter Ruderman · Accepted Answer · 2010-06-18T20:00:36.040

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The problem is that ASCII only defines character codes 0 through 127. If you want to use codes above that, then you need to specify an ANSI code page. The chart you referenced is using the Latin-1 code page and your console is apparently using something else.

You need to set your console code page to Latin-1 for your characters to display as desired. There's no standard C++ way to do this. If you're programming on Windows, you can use the SetConsoleOutputCP() function. The code page id for Latin-1 on Windows is 1252.

edited Jun 18 '10 at 20:00

answered Jun 18 '10 at 19:40

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Standard C++ doesn't have a way to do this; the standard way would be to use `std::wcout`. Unfortunately that appears a bit broken on VC++ – MSalters Jun 22 '10 at 08:40

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 18 '10 at 19:40

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To get the Unicode character codes you can look them up in the Unicode code charts.

decodeunicode.org is nice for interactive browsing.

answered Jun 18 '10 at 19:40

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