Printing UTF-8 in C

[Dov Grobgeld]

Writing hebrew to the terminal is a bad idea because terminals do not
support BiDi reordering.

That said, doing "cat small-hello.utf8"[1] works for me in gnome-term
(though it is reversed). No special environment variables were defined.

Regards,
Dov

[1] http://paps.sourceforge.net/small-hello.utf8



On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Ori Idan <ori at helicontech.co.il> wrote:

> I need to print several Hebrew characters (UTF-8) to the terminal.
> My locale is set to he_IL.UTF-8 so it shows Hebrew on the terminal,
> however printing from C gives me Chinese characters.
> My question is how to print one character such as 'א' to the terminal.
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