Properly print utf8 characters in windows console

Question

This is the way I try to do it:

#include 
#include 
using namespace std;

int main() {
  SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8);
   //ge         


        

Answer 1

I had similar problems, but none of the existing answers worked for me. Something else I observed is that, if I stick UTF-8 characters in a plain string literal, they would print properly, but if I tried to use a UTF-8 literal (u8"text"), the characters get butchered by the compiler (proved by printing out their numeric values one byte at a time; the raw literal had the correct UTF-8 bytes, as verified on a Linux machine, but the UTF-8 literal was garbage).

After some poking around, I found the solution: /utf-8. With that, everything Just Works; my sources are UTF-8, I can use explicit UTF-8 literals, and output works with no other changes needed.