GetConsoleOutputCP SetConsoleOutputCP

http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/windows/9797/

After a bit of googling I came across the following:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686036(VS.85).aspx -- SetConsoleOutputCP
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd317756(VS.85).aspx -- code page ids
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683169(VS.85).aspx -- GetConsoleOutputCP

I suppose the way to do this would be:

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int main() { UINT oldcodepage = GetConsoleOutputCP(); SetConsoleOutputCP(65001); // for UTF-8 ... or use ?1251? for cyrillic // -- there appear to // be many different cyrillic options -- not sure which one is desired. // UTF-8, at least, is always consistent // ... output crap here SetConsoleOutputCP(oldcodepage); return 0; }

UTF-8 is probably more easily portable, but then you have to make sure your text is UTF-8 encoded (and since cyrillic characters are multi-byte in UTF-8... things like std::string::length() and strlen() will return values higher than the actual number of characters).

Apparently you might also need to worry about SetConsoleCP, too for the input -- so you might have to look that up as well.

blech. Hope that works for you.