_tprintf with Unicode characters in a console application

Question

I draw this simple conclusion from a Unicode console application (using C ++ and Visual Studio 2008). This code is designed to work on Windows:

_tprintf(L"Some sample string\n");

Everything works perfectly. But if I add a non-ASCII character there:

 _tprintf(L"Some sample € string\n");

what is displayed on the console is all up to this character:

Example

What am I doing wrong here?

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ahmd0 Mar 15 '13 at 10:35

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Cubbi · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-16T14:07:47+0000

By default, the Windows console does not handle wide characters. Probably the easiest way to enable this functionality is to call _setmode :

 _setmode(_fileno(stdout), _O_WTEXT);

See MSDN for necessary inclusions, usage examples, and other available modes.