How can I cin and cout some unicode text?
I had a similar problem in the past, in my case imbue and sync_with_stdio did the trick. Try this: #include <iostream> #include <locale> #include <string> using namespace std; int main() { ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false); wcin.imbue(locale(“en_US.UTF-8”)); wcout.imbue(locale(“en_US.UTF-8″)); wstring s; wstring t(L” la Polynésie française”); wcin >> s; wcout << s << t << endl; return 0; }