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 solved the problem in the following way:

Lucida Console doesn't seem to support umlauts, so changing the console font to Consolas, for example, works.

#include 
#include 

int main()
{
    SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8);

    // I'm using Visual Studio, so encoding the source file in UTF-8 won't work
    const char* message = "a" "\xC3\xA4" "bcdefghijklmno" "\xC3\xB6" "pqrs" "\xC3\x9F" "tu" "\xC3\xBC" "vwxyz";

    // Note the capital S in the first argument, when used with wprintf it
    // specifies a single-byte or multi-byte character string (at least on
    // Visual C, not sure about the C library MinGW is using)
    wprintf(L"%S", message);
}

EDIT: fixed stupid typos and the decoding of the string literal, sorry about those.