I am making a program, like flashcards but console based. At the start of the program, I read from a file containing UTF-8 encoded Japanese characters (such as "ひらがな, カタカナ, 患者"
). However, when I call std::getline()
, the input comes out as ""
. How can I achieve this? Maybe opening STD_INPUT_HANDLE
as a file? I use SetConsoleOutputCP()
and SetConsoleCP()
with CP_UTF8
as an argument to enable UTF-8 printing.
Minimal Reproducible Example, as requested by @πάντα ῥεῖ
#include <iostream>
#include <Windows.h>
#include <fstream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
void populate(std::vector<std::string>& in) {
std::ifstream file("words.txt"); // fill this with some UTF-8 characters, then check the contents of [in]
std::string line;
while (std::getline(file, line)) {
in.emplace_back(line);
}
}
int main() {
SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8);
SetConsoleCP(CP_UTF8);
SetConsoleTitleA("Example");
std::vector<std::string> arr;
populate(arr);
std::string input_utf8; // type some UTF-8 characters when asked for input
std::cin >> input_utf8;
for (std::string s : arr)
if (input_utf8 == s)
std::cout << "It works! The input wasn't null!";
}
This program works for me. I needed the code page 932 (Shift-JIS) to get things to show up right. (I do not have Japanese enabled on my Windows 10 machine,so it doesn't depend on that.) If I just std::cin
or std::wcin
, I can see in the debugger I am not getting the right input. But if I use ReadConsoleW
/WriteConsoleW
everything looks correct.
#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
//This code-page-changing stuff, plus the restoring later, is from
//https://www.codeproject.com/articles/34068/unicode-output-to-the-windows-console
UINT oldcp = GetConsoleOutputCP(); //what is the current code page? store for later
SetConsoleOutputCP(932); //set it up so it can do Japanese
cout << "Enter something: ";
wchar_t wmsg[32];
DWORD used;
if (!ReadConsole(GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE),
wmsg,
31, //because wmsg has 32 slots. ?
&used,
nullptr))
cerr << "ReadConsole failed, le = " << GetLastError() << endl;
size_t len = used;
cout << "You entered: ";
//From https://cboard.cprogramming.com/windows-programming/112382-printing-unicode-console.html
if (!WriteConsoleW(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE),
wmsg, (DWORD) len,
&used, 0))
cerr << "WriteConsole failed, le = " << GetLastError() << endl;
cout << '\n';
cout << "Hit enter to end (and restore previous code page)."; cin.get();
SetConsoleOutputCP(oldcp); SetConsoleCP(oldcp);
return 0;
}