Unicode

Question

Alright. I was going through some of the code playground bits that were already out there and found @NezhnyjVampir's Alphabet array and found it interesting. I thought that for my code I would up the ante a little bit and try to get it to use the Greek alphabet.

I've been all over the internet and can't figure out how to get this to work. I can't get it to display Unicode characters properly and I keep getting dumb errors like my code is trying to convert from wchar_10 or it doesn't support << for outputs.

Here's the code I have already... I'm using the latest version of VS C++:
// ConsoleApplication1.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application.
//

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
#include <string>

int main()
{
locale::global(locale("en_US.utf8"));
wcout.imbue(locale());

wstring gAlphabet[] = { L"No letter", L"\u0319"};

int num;
cin >> num;
if (num == 0 || num > 1) {
cout << gAlphabet[0];
}
else {
cout << "The letter number " << num << " of the Greek alphabet is " << gAlphabet[num] << endl;
}
return 0;
}

Also, VS keeps forcing me to use that stdafx.h file, which is throwing me. I tell it not to do a precompiled header for my project and yet it forces me to include stdafx.h.

Answer 1

For the standard header: Make an empty project and then just add the Main.cpp file by hand.

Answer 2

Thank you for the info, @StoneSmasher. :)