David, Tyler,
1. cout, simply, gives me ON THE VIDEO a mass of irreproducible
symbols.
The commas are the only ones that I recognize: he, he, he.
2. However, I tried to write to a file to see what happened and the
result was what I expected.
All the letters and their accents are there to a tee, if you excuse
me the play of words.
ofstream o;
o.open ("accented.txt");
o << "Á/á, À/à, Â/â, Ã/ã, Ä/ä";
o.close();
3. I wonder why such a wide difference in behavior!
How to circumvent this and stop making cout stubbornly monoglot?
Geraldo
--- In [email protected], "David Hamill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> There may be a problem depending on whether your chars are
> signed or unsigned.
>
> An unsigned char goes from 0x00 to 0xFF (i.e. the full
> "extended ASCII" range; ASCII stops at 0x7F). A signed char
> goes from -0x80 to +0x7F, or is it the other way around, I
> can never remember.
>
> I've run into problems reading strings containing strange
> characters, and had to specify unsigned chars to make things
> work properly.
>
> Signedness of chars is one of the things that break code
> portability. I think the C standard says it's implementation
> dependent.
>
> David
>
