C not printing emojis as expected-CodePudding

I have the following extract of a program

int main(){
  cout << "1) ✊\n";
  cout << "2) ✋\n";
  cout << "3) ✌️\n";

}

But at the time I run it I get strange texts like the following

====================
rock paper scissors!
====================
1) Ô£è
2) Ô£ï
3) Ô£î´©Å

This seems not to be related to my terminal but instead to a compilation result because if I run echo ✊ it shows as expected.

See example below

I'm currently using the following compilation commands and compiler version g *.cpp -o rock_paper_scissors.exe

g .exe (Rev9, Built by MSYS2 project) 11.2.0 Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Finally, note that it was working before as expected, but at some point, it stopped working, I noticed after I used system("pause") which I'm guessing may have changed something on the compilation configurations as this is a Windows-only command, I delete such piece of code and still having the issue.

You can see the rest of the code here: https://github.com/guillene/RockPaperScissors

CodePudding user response：

If your terminal font supports emojis and you don't want to write much code (like switching from cout to wcout), you can use the windows api function below.

#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>

int main(){
  SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8);
  std::cout << "1) ✊\n";
  std::cout << "2) ✋\n";
  std::cout << "3) ✌️\n";
  return 0;
}

see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/setconsoleoutputcp