Displaying the € symbol in DOS from a C Program??

py2006

Howdy all,

I am creating a little program for myself that calculates tax etc using C as my programming language. However, the euro symbol doens't come out in DOS.

Is there a way to do this or does DOS not recognise it at all?

Thanks

Adam

<snip>

Never mind

py2006

Who what where why when?

Adam

Thought I had found a solution, turns out not so much.

Martyr

don't think you can do it.
even old pound symbols don't display..DOS only supported ASCII character encoding, & the pound symbol was never part of it.
your best to use the letter E, no?

Hobbes

Actually if its XP it should display the euro if your set to a locale that supports the Euro.

Load up Charmap.exe (character map) and select the U+20AC character. If you paste that into Dos box you will see it.

py2006

Hobbes wrote:

Actually if its XP it should display the euro if your set to a locale that supports the Euro.

Load up Charmap.exe (character map) and select the U+20AC character. If you paste that into Dos box you will see it.

Yea but if I am creating a C program from a text file. Then I compile it and view it in dos how do I do it?

There must be something I can type into the text file that will produce a € in dos.

sh_o

Are you certain that your dos window can display a € sign?

If it can't, then you need to configure the correct codepage - google for: Euro Codepage dos
And that will give you the answer.

If it can print out a Euro sign , then look more closely at your c program and reduce it down to just a main method and a printf -
I presume you can also print out the character code and that will be translated to the requisite sign (that is if the € sign is not supported itself).

What compiler are you using? Are you also compiling under dos?

py2006

sh_o wrote:

Are you certain that your dos window can display a € sign?

If it can't, then you need to configure the correct codepage - google for: Euro Codepage dos
And that will give you the answer.

If it can print out a Euro sign , then look more closely at your c program and reduce it down to just a main method and a printf -
I presume you can also print out the character code and that will be translated to the requisite sign (that is if the € sign is not supported itself).

What compiler are you using? Are you also compiling under dos?

Yep, compiling using Borland in DOS. The € doesn't come out in a normal printf. Its comes out as a C or something similar.

Tobias Greeshman

If it's not supported then there's not much you can do

Although if you printed out ascii 'C' 'backspace control char' and a '=' it might work. I know I've heard it works on really old systems. Put them in a string using "\x43\x..\x.." and use printf. It might work and it might not.

Hobbes

As I said you need to pass a unicode string of U+20AC.

Mutant_Fruit

Hobbes wrote:

As I said you need to pass a unicode string of U+20AC.

Dos supports unicode?