c - Showing characters in extended ASCII code (Ubuntu)

Question

I need to print characters part of ASCII extended, namely something like:

char p = 219; // a rectangle   
printf("%c
", p);

However, in the shell it does not show the proper character .. what can i do to see the rectangle?

Thank you

Answer 1

Use libiconv to convert the CP-1252 or ISO-8859-1 or whatever 8-bit character set you are converting from to UTF-8; something like this:

#include <iconv.h>
iconv_t cd = iconv_open("utf-8", "cp-1252");
iconv(cd, &inbuf, sizeof(inbuf), &outbuf, sizeof(outbuf)); // <- psuedocode, change to meet your needs