Printing UTF-8 in C

Printing UTF-8 in C

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Sun Jan 12 21:02:12 IST 2014


Hi Dov,

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 08:53:38PM +0200, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> 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.

But Ori has specifically asked about sending just one character to terminal.  
cat treats everything like binary data.

baruch

> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Ori Idan

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