UTF-8 Programs on windows

This project showcases how to support UTF-8 in windows applications. By using UTF-8 everywhere, you guarantee your application will be portable accross platforms.

⚠️ UTF-8 support on windows is still fairly bleeding edge and requires a very recent of windows that is not widely deployed yet.

Requirements

• Windows 1903 or greater
• Windows Terminal
• Windows SDK 10.0.18362.0 or greater
• Suitable Fonts

Steps

• In the main of your application configure the console to expect UTF-8

SetConsoleCP(CP_UTF8);
SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8);

• Link the provided manifest to enable UTF-8 as the active code page
• Compile your source files with the /utf-8 option. Make sure your source files are utf8-encoded.
• Use the ANSI system APIs (functions suffixed with A, like CreateFileA) with utf-8 encoded string parameters (confusing, isn't it)