topic Re: how to print wchar_t strings in Operating System - Linux

how to print wchar_t strings

nayeem khan — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:36:51 GMT

Hi

I need help in priting wchar_t strings
the output i get for the following program is some address

#include
int main()
{
wchar_t temp[]=L"Hello World";
cout<return 0;
}

any info/pointers as how to print

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nayeem khan

Re: how to print wchar_t strings

Dennis Handly — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:59:44 GMT

(These aren't the droids you're looking for. :-)
You shouldn't be using iostream. But instead use stdio.

The reason you get an address is because cout doesn't have a wchar_t insertion operator. You'll need to use wcout.
Then there are N other roadblocks that keeps this from working.

You may instead want to use wcstombs(3) to convert from wide character string to a multibyte string and then just use cout.

Re: how to print wchar_t strings

nayeem khan — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:03:15 GMT

Hi Dennis

Thanks for the response...

Another easy way is to use wcout

If we use iostream we have to use wcout instead of cout

#include
int main()
{
wchar_t temp[]=L"Hello World";
wcout<return 0;
}

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nayeem khan

Re: how to print wchar_t strings

Dennis Handly — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:13:55 GMT

>If we use iostream we have to use wcout instead of cout

Yes but then you'll only be able to print out ASCII chars.
The N roadblocks are all documented here:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1054305