Displaying characters form Unicode.

[HazySmoke)345]

Here's the problem:

I am a grade 11 student, and the homework just piles up and up, and I consider myself a logical-thinking king of guy, so I hate language-related subjects, such as English or French.

Since my teacher is lame, every now and then I have to type up my French project - in fact, she does not allow hand-written assignments. And it's really a pain to type in the accents, such as C with a hook under it, or E with a hat on top. So, whenever I have to type accents, I need to find a French website, find a word with these accents, and copy & paste them into my word document, and it takes a long long time.

Therefore, I'm trying to make a program that reads in a plain text French document, and make the following conversions:

Convert "/e" to the e with an acute accent.
Convert "\e" to the e with a grave accent.
Convert "^e" to the e with a hat on top.
... etc.

So I started off by trying to make a program that prints out these special characters in the first place, and this is my code:

code:

#include <stdio.h> int main(){         FILE* out = fopen ("testing.txt","w");         /*The numbers used to initialize the variables are the unicodes for the special characters*/         int e2 = 233, e4 = 232, en3 = 234;         int in3 = 238;         int a4 = 224, an3 = 226;         int u4 = 249;         int c5 = 231;                 fprintf (out, "%c %c %c %c %c %c %c %c",         e2, e4, en3, in3, a4, an3, u4, c5);         fclose(out); return 0;}

And when I opened the file, all I saw was a whole bunch of question marks. Why is that?

[HazySmoke)345]

Sorry about the double post, but the typo right there /really/ ticks me off. It's "kind of guy", not "king of guy".

[Monstrosity_]

HazySmoke)345 wrote:

Since my teacher is lame, every now and then I have to type up my French project - in fact, she does not allow hand-written assignments. And it's really a pain to type in the accents, such as C with a hook under it, or E with a hat on top. So, whenever I have to type accents, I need to find a French website, find a word with these accents, and copy & paste them into my word document, and it takes a long long time.

I believe only a-z A-Z and 0-9 can be used in a source file for porability reasons, your best bet is to follow that.

HazySmoke)345 wrote:

Therefore, I'm trying to make a program that reads in a plain text French document, and make the following conversions:

Convert "/e" to the e with an acute accent.
Convert "\e" to the e with a grave accent.
Convert "^e" to the e with a hat on top.
... etc.

So I started off by trying to make a program that prints out these special characters in the first place, and this is my code:

code:

#include <stdio.h> int main(){         FILE* out = fopen ("testing.txt","w");         /*The numbers used to initialize the variables are the unicodes for the special characters*/         int e2 = 233, e4 = 232, en3 = 234;         int in3 = 238;         int a4 = 224, an3 = 226;         int u4 = 249;         int c5 = 231;                 fprintf (out, "%c %c %c %c %c %c %c %c",         e2, e4, en3, in3, a4, an3, u4, c5);         fclose(out); return 0;}

And when I opened the file, all I saw was a whole bunch of question marks. Why is that?

You editor cannot wide characters, output to the console or get a better editor. Also, the character type can't guarantee you'll get those values. Look up the wide character type and assosiated functions. I personally havn't worked with them much, but good luck.

[haskell]

If you are on a Windows machine, you could always go:

code:

Start->Programs->Accessories->System Tools->Character Map

Or set your keyboard to be of Canadian configuration, instead of American.

And here may help you on your quest for a useful personal program .

[HazySmoke)345]

I tried to output it on the console... it still says a bunch of question marks.

Yeah, character map is the place where I found the unicode values of these characters in the first place , but the point is that it still takes a lot of time.

I tried to install the French keyboard when I was installing Windows XP, but it froze, and I did not dare try it again.

But nevertheless, thanks guys, the link seems to be useful, but it's also kind of confusing I'll try to understand it later, as I need to finish writing this French thing - I have to be ready to present it after the break!

French FTL (for the lose)!!!

[OneOffDriveByPoster]

An alternative approach may be to use HTML entities like &eacute.

[bugzpodder]

use a unicode supported editor such as notepad2 or word, and go from there.