C++ Console APP special Characters

Which are you having a problem with, having the characters show up in your program or having the characters show up in your IDE?

They show in the IDE, not in my console application. The actual program..

If you're using windows, I think you can do something like:



Google ASCII Chart or ASCII table and you should be able to come up with a list of the ASCII character codes and the character they produce.

The IDE is displaying the Unicode characters, while your console is (most likely) displaying the IBM extended ascii charset. I.e. in Unicode, ╔ is L'\x2554' whereas in a console, ╔ is '\x69'

What method are you using to display your characters?

cout << "special chars here";

To be able to display those special characters you have to type cast ints. You could make consts for each character you want displayed and then with a cout

I know a few IDEs that don't display the characters but the console does. And only Windows I believe, since those characters you showed are windows special characters.

This will help. It is a list of all the numbers and their corresponding character.

This is a program I made that actually uses those characters. Doing the char(int) approach was the only way I could find to get those displayed, even copying and pasting wasn't working.

I have to print tons of theses characters, if possible Id like to put them into one block " " and somehow print them..

Depending on your operating system, you may be able to use system calls to display arbitrary unicode characters. For example, on Windows you should be able to do something like:

  WriteConsole(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), L" ╔═══╦═══╦═══╗ ", 16, 0, 0);

to dump a wide character string to the console.

You could use a stringstream assuming this is C++.



Then just print out the string you want. It won't work well for part of your board because you have to fill in certain characters, but you could print the top, put in the middle containing the X's and O's, then the bottom of the first row, and so on. And I haven't looked too much into it, but with stringstream you have to find someway to either clear the stream or just make a new one with stringstream someName;. Making a new one isn't a good code practice but if you make a function that makes the row and stores it somewhere, when that function ends it will get rid of the stringstream and you can use the ss name again.

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Original post by SiCrane Depending on your operating system, you may be able to use system calls to display arbitrary unicode characters. For example, on Windows you should be able to do something like: WriteConsole(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), L" ╔═══╦═══╦═══╗ ", 16, 0, 0); to dump a wide character string to the console.

outputs

T%P%P%P%f%P%P%

Windows 7.

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Original post by Dragonsoulj You could use a stringstream assuming this is C++. *** Source Snippet Removed *** Then just print out the string you want. It won't work well for part of your board because you have to fill in certain characters, but you could print the top, put in the middle containing the X's and O's, then the bottom of the first row, and so on. And I haven't looked too much into it, but with stringstream you have to find someway to either clear the stream or just make a new one with stringstream someName;. Making a new one isn't a good code practice but if you make a function that makes the row and stores it somewhere, when that function ends it will get rid of the stringstream and you can use the ss name again.

This worked, thanks.

Where did you find a list of the numbers for the characters.

Look at my previous post. The first This link gives you an image with all the characters and the codes for them. I used that.

FYI

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with stringstream you have to find someway to either clear the stream

ostr.str(string());

cout << "\xC9\xCD\xCD\xCD\xCB\xCD\xCD\xCD\xCB\xCD\xCD\xCD\xBB";

IBM Extended Character Set.

Didn't know you could do hex escapes. Thanks for that.

If not using Unicode output functions, make sure to set the console code page before outputting anything, else your program will produce different output on different machines (or even the same machine if someone changes the code page with the chcp command-line function before running your app).