Special letters in c

[ficoblooder]

I started programming in c programming language and I have a problem with special letter such as č ć ž š  or  đ(letters used in Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian), I need this letter for my new program but I don't now which library should I use to add them, so can someone help please by providing a link or straight up saying how to do it, I am working in visual express 2012.

[Dat Guy]

You cannot use them for naming your variables. You can perfectly use them inside strings.

Use charmap (Win+R, charmap, Enter).

[ficoblooder]

i can't get them, this happens

[Dat Guy]

Windows uses UTF-16, your code obviously does not.

[ficoblooder]

1 minute ago, Dat Guy said:

Windows uses UTF-16, your code obviously does not.

sorry for asking but can you explain that.....I am new to programming

[Uptivuptiz]

1 hour ago, ficoblooder said:

sorry for asking but can you explain that.....I am new to programming

UTF-16 is a character encoding. This is just what defines a ID to all the different charecters there are in the alphabet. Since UTF-16 does not include č ć ž š it cannot display them because it doesn't know what they are.

Wikipedia

[IAmAndre]

You should try this:

Quote

include <stdio.h>

#include <locale.h>

 

int main(void)

{

    setlocale(LC_CTYPE,"");

    printf("âÄÂéOUÜö\n");

 

    return 0;

}

 

[DevBlox]

As others have said, it's a character encoding thing. It's not an out of the box thing with C, and you have to be mindful about it and learn how to deal with encodings. This is just how it is really, C is quite a low level programming language in today's standards, a lot of things are done manually.

 

Read about encodings, starting with ASCII, and understand how they're represented. You'll have a better idea of what's going on and why you get question marks. That string of characters contains UTF characters, but in C it's still represented as a bunch of bytes that the terminal cannot understand because it's not set to do that. That is what setlocale does.

[wasab]

Code is written in English, well its version of English anyways. No none English symbols and characters, sorry. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

10 minutes ago, wasab said:

Code is written in English, well its version of English anyways. No none English symbols and characters, sorry. 

I believe OP is concerned about printing characters outside of the ASCII range.