How to write Cyrillic text in C++ console ?

Question

For example, if I write:

cout << "Привет!" << endl; //it's hello in Russian

in console it would be something like "╧ЁштхЄ!"

ok, I know that we can use:

setlocale(LC_ALL, "Russian");

but after that not working command line arguments in russian (if I start my program through BAT file):

StartProgram.bat

chcp 1251
MyProgram.exe -user=Олег -password=Пароль

so, after setlocale program can't read russian arguments properly.

This happens because BAT file in CP1251, but console is in CP866

So, there is a question:

How to write in C++ console russian text and same time russian command line arguments have to be read properly

thanks

Answer 1

See this entry from Michael Kaplan's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2008/03/18/8306597.aspx

Answer 2

Have you tried using wcout? It is similar to cout, but it accepts "wide" characters, which should permit the proper unicode encodings.

This article about localization, and another, both from MSDN may be of use.

Answer 3

Have you set the language for non-unicode programs to be Russian, in the Regional and Language Options section of the Control Panel?

(I have no idea what the usual setup for Russian-speaking programmers might be; I just wonder whether it is common to set this to some kind of English to avoid confusing overly-parochial tools.)

Unless my memory is playing tricks, when I was working with some code from Japanese developers it was this step that got the console displaying non-Unicode Japanese text (Shift-JIS encoding) properly.