c++, cout and UTF-8

Question

Hopefully a simple question: cout seems to die when handling strings that end with a multibyte UTF-8 char, am I doing something wrong? This is with GCC (Mingw)

Answer 1

If you want your program to use your current locale, call setlocale(LC_ALL, "") as the first thing in your program. Otherwise the program's locale is C and what it will do to non-ASCII characters is not knowable by us mere humans.