UTF-8 output on Windows console

Question

The following code shows unexpected behaviour on my machine (tested with Visual C++ 2008 SP1 on Windows XP and VS 2012 on Windows 7):

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Answer 1

Oi. Congratulations on finding a way to change the code page of the console from inside your program. I didn't know about that call, I always had to use chcp.

I'm guessing the C++ default locale is getting involved. By default it will use the code page provide by GetThreadLocale() to determine the text encoding of non-wstring stuff. This generally defaults to CP1252. You could try using SetThreadLocale() to get to UTF-8 (if it even does that, can't recall), with the hope that std::locale defaults to something that can handle your UTF-8 encoding.