cout << "åäö"

[karolina]

Hi

I am playing around with visual studio 7.0.
Why does the code below do like it does?
Where do I set the character set to use in cout,
properties->configuratio n properties->General->character does not do
the trick.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
cout << "åäö";
}

output:
σΣ÷

expected output:
åäö
thanks!

[Jumbo]

"karolina" <ra********@hot mail.com> wrote in message
news:c8******** *************** **@posting.goog le.com...

Hi

I am playing around with visual studio 7.0.
Why does the code below do like it does?
Where do I set the character set to use in cout,
properties->configuratio n properties->General->character does not do
the trick.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
cout << "åäö";
}

output:
σΣ÷

expected output:
åäö

[OT]
In windows open up a dos prompt window and type :
mode con
You should get information which tells you the DOS code page. (mine's is
850)

In the file menu within VC++ find the Advanced save options.
Save your file as ( in my case). Western European DOS - codepage 850 .
Your codepage should be listed there too if it is different from mine.

This should give you the expected output.

Additionally oven up character map in windows and select the check box for
advanced view , change the character set to the same as your DOS is using
and you will see what characters are compatable..

HTH

[Jack Klein]

On 4 Dec 2003 14:10:56 -0800, ra********@hotm ail.com (karolina) wrote
in comp.lang.c++:

Hi

I am playing around with visual studio 7.0.
Why does the code below do like it does?
Where do I set the character set to use in cout,
properties->configuratio n properties->General->character does not do
the trick.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
cout << "åäö";
}

output:
σΣ÷

expected output:
åäö
thanks!

news:microsoft. public.vc.*. This is not a C++ language issue.

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[Lars T?rnqvist]

ra********@hotm ail.com (karolina) wrote in message news:<c8******* *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com>...

Hi

I am playing around with visual studio 7.0.
Why does the code below do like it does?
Where do I set the character set to use in cout,
properties->configuratio n properties->General->character does not do
the trick.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
cout << "åäö";
}

output:
σΣ÷

expected output:
åäö
thanks!

I expect you're swedish, so I'll write in swedish. ;)

Du måste skriva dessa tecken med ascii-kod, så att istället för att
skriva

cout<<"Jag är på en ö";

så skriver du

cout<<"Jag \x84r p\x86 en \x94";

å = \x86
ä = \x84
ö = \x94

förstår du?
om inte får du maila.
la********@hotm ail.com

[Victor Bazarov]

"Lars T?rnqvist" <la********@hot mail.com> wrote...

ra********@hotm ail.com (karolina) wrote in message

news:<c8******* *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com>...

Hi
[...]
thanks!

I expect you're swedish, so I'll write in swedish. ;)
[...]

Please consider that the majority of readers in this newsgroup
are not Swedish, and out of them, most cannot read Swedish. If
your answer could be of any interest to them, the form in which
it was presented made it impossible to use.

If you think that your answer is NOT interesting to the rest of
the newsgroup readers, use private e-mail, please. Otherwise,
perhaps next time you will be so kind as to supply an English
translation of what you have to say.

Thank you very much.

Victor