Why does typeid.name() return weird characters using GCC and how to make it print unmangled names?

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The return of name is implementation defined : an implementation is not even required to return different strings for different types.

What you get from g++ is a decorated name, that you can “demangle” using the c++filt command or __cxa_demangle.

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