Printing UTF-8 in C

[Ori Idan]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld at gmail.com>wrote:

> The most unixy way is to treat everything as binary UTF-8 and then forget
> about encodings. The following program works just fine:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> int main()
> {
>   printf("Hello שלום!\n");
> }
>
> Compile with:
>
> cc -o hello hello.c
> ./hello
> Hello שלום!
>
> (Though שלום is inversed in the terminal).
>

That works, but I need one character such as 'א' to be printed and to be
able to print 'ב' as 'א' + 1
Does someone have any idea how to do it?

-- 
Ori Idan


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> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il> wrote:
>
>> 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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