Corrupted Japanese character in VC7.1

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TomTom - 16 Jan 2005 21:48 GMT

Hi,

I am very new to international programming and have a basic question. I
created a Japanese Hello program using VC7.1. All it does it to output
Hello in Japanese. The code below, however, outputs garbage characters. I
saved the C++ file as Unicode, but it appears that it does not make any
difference.

char myArray [20] = "?????"; // Japanese text means 'hello'

cout << endl << myArray;

If you know how this should be coded, can you let me know?

TomTom

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Michael (michka) Kaplan [MS] - 17 Jan 2005 17:15 GMT

See

http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2005/01/05/347394.aspx

Although you are not hitting the error (the bytes probably do not hit one of
the illegal values the post refers to).

The solution is to save the file as a Unicode.

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TomTom - 18 Jan 2005 09:44 GMT

Thanks. I save with all the UNICODE types available in VS, but still the
text is garbage...

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Michael (michka) Kaplan [MS] - 18 Jan 2005 16:26 GMT

That part likely has more to do with the output code page of the console
itself -- if you try outputing the code points rather than the characters
then you will know if that is what is going on....

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TomTom - 23 Jan 2005 20:05 GMT

Thanks for your suggestion. I am using Windows XP. Although the machine's
system locale is English (U.S), I thought that should have worked. I will
investigate.

> That part likely has more to do with the output code page of the console
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"Achim Ruopp [MSFT]" - 10 Feb 2005 21:55 GMT

TomTom,
as you are running on a machine with English US system locale you will face
a number of obstacles:
1.) The VC 7.1 compiler by default only uses the system default codepage,
you can change this with #pragma setlocale; VC 7.1 does not support Unicode
source files (the upcoming version will)
2.) You are outputting the string to a command window that uses the OEM
codepage 437 as an output codepage; this codepage doesn't contain Japanese
characters; there are ways to output Unicode via WriteConsole(), but this
isn't supported in the C runtime until the latest version
3.) On present versions of Windows the command window font selection
depends on the system locale and for English US system locale this
selection doesn't contain a font that could display Japanese characters
..?

In short: displaying Japanese in a command window on an English US system
locale machine is pretty much impossible (note that you can make it work
for other languages like Russian or Greek). You better display English or
switch to Japanese system locale.

Achim Ruopp

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TomTom - 11 Feb 2005 04:28 GMT

Thank you Achim. Then, I won't spend time on Console Window any more.

It's good to know that the next version will support Unicode source files.

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