Netbeans C++ not printing UTF-8 characters

Question

Here is the very simple C++ code:

char a00 = 'Z';
char a01 = '\u0444';
char a02[5] = {'H','e','l','l','o'};
char a03[] = {'W','o','r','l','d','\0','Z','Z'};

cout << "Simple char: " << a00
        << "\nUTF-8 char: " << a01
        << "\nFull char array: " << a02
        << "\n2nd in char array: " << a02[1]
        << "\nWith null character: " << a03 << endl;

My problem is when Netbeans 8.1 tries to show the output of such a program, it does not create the UTF-8 character.

The character should look like this: ф (see: link)

Instead, I get the following output:

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I have tried adding -J-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 to netbeans_default-options inside the netbeans.conf file located at inside the etc folder. It made no difference.

Answer 1

UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding which means most of the characters occupy several bytes. So a single char is not enough to hold most UTF-8 characters.

You can store them in a string like this:

std::string s = "\u0444";