Specification of source charset encoding in MSVC++, like gcc “-finput-charset=CharSet”

Question

I want to create some sample programs that deal with encodings, specifically I want to use wide strings like:

wstring a=L\"grüßen\";
wstring b=L\"שלום עולם!\         


        

Answer 1

For VS you can use:

#pragma setlocale( "[locale-string]" )

The default ANSI code page of the locale will be used as file encoding.

But in general is a bad idea to hard-code any user-visible strings in your code. Store them in some kind of resources. Good for localization, easy spell-checking and updating, etc.