For some reason VS swaps "£" for "?"
For instance: cout << "Price: £" << price << endl;
outputs:
Price: ?xx.xx
Doesn't matter where I place a "£", it always outputs a "?"
Anybody got any idea what this is?!
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1Related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3831289/inserting-a-%C2%A3-sign-in-an-output-string-in-c – Omry Nov 28 '20 at 19:00
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the character encoding of your source file probably doesn't match the character set of your console. Please show a [mre] – Alan Birtles Nov 28 '20 at 19:01
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Visual Studio doesn't do anything like that. `?` will only appear if a file is saved as ASCII using the wrong codepage. This can happen with *any* application and is essentially a coding bug.. I wonder what codepage was used as `£` appears in almost all codepages. – Panagiotis Kanavos Nov 28 '20 at 19:02
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In any case, post your code. Almost certainly, you aren't using Unicode strings (ie u16string/char16_t or wstring/wchar in older versions of the language). Windows strings are UTF16 and applications are expected to use Unicode since the late 1990s – Panagiotis Kanavos Nov 28 '20 at 19:05
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Works on my machine. I'm using UTF-16 output, from UTF-8 strings. Is that what you are using? – Eljay Nov 28 '20 at 19:29