Displaying extended ASCII characters

Question

In Visual Studio 2005 on 32-bit Windows, why doesn\'t my console display characters from 128 to 255?

for example:

cout << \"¿\" << endl;          


        

Answer 1

When you print an ASCII string, Windows internally converts it to UNICODE based on the current code page. There is also a translation from UNICODE to "ASCII" done by the CRT. The following would work.

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

void
__cdecl
main(int ac, char **av)
{
    _setmode(_fileno(stdout), _O_U16TEXT);
    std::wcout  << L"\u00BF";
}