My First Program

[Elvis Presley]

To: the Unicode experts at linux-utf8:

Salut!

When in doubt as to where to begin, always start at the begining.

My first program:

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#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  printf("Hello World!\n");
  printf("&#922;&#945;&#955;&#951;&#956;&#941;&#961;&#945;
&#922;&#972;&#963;&#956;&#949;!\n");
  printf("Bonjour � Tous!\n");
  return 0;
}
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This should work, because the literal in printf() is a multi-byte character
string.

But it didn't.

I have two scenarios, neither is Linux.

1) A gcc based RDE called "Dev-4 C++" for Windows 98. The editor in this
program will not let me enter Greek letters, neither in 8859-7, nor utf-8. On
Copy & Paste, it seems to convert everything to 8859-1, so I can write a really
nice 'hello' program in Latin-1.  

2) gcc running in the cygwin emulator. I can't seem to make vim do anything
reasonable, so I create the utf-8 file in Windows using Word 2000 (or UniPad),
and copy it over to /cygwin, where I can compile and run it. I recognise the
"Hello World!" string output, but I haven't been able to determine the exact
nature of the other strings.

My question is this:

I assume the compiler uses the locale to determine the character set to use for
the string literals.

Might I be able to set the locale in cygwin to 'something-utf8'?

Regards,

Elvis

PS

Wouldn't it be nice if all computers were utf-8 by default, but I know, legacy
issues... I don't think this Unicode thing will ever work, well, maybe in a
hundred years. But by then, the world will be speaking English.



                
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