How to output using std::cout << ("") << std::endl; tick on the screen.

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For example:

 cout << "\u2713" <<endl;

Or other ticks on the link: Tick

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    Almost certainly it will not work in the Windows console. What encoding does the "\u2713" line get? (Does it depend on the compiler? IDE settings?) - jfs

My sincere advice: because the output to the console depends on a lot of factors - wide characters are used or not, encoding, etc. - do not bother, but use something similar. Well, what's the point in the console to direct this beauty? :)

Print any v that will be the same everywhere - because you are unlikely to mix it up with a letter.

  • Well, the console, this is just for the test ... and so, everything will be output in a PDF file :) - Insider
  • Well, for the test it will definitely come down :) How do you like the option - [v] or [ ] ? - Harry
  • Also not bad, you will need to think :) - Insider

A check mark can be represented by a Unicode symbol ✓ (U + 2713) . In this case, your question boils down to: “how to display Unicode on screen in c ++”, which may depend on the platform.

On Windows, in order to output arbitrary characters to the console, despite the current codepage, you can use the WriteConsoleW() API or the equivalent ( _O_U16TEXT mode and wprintf() with wchar_t lines, see. How to display Russian text? ). It is necessary to set the font in the console, which can ✓ display. Picking locale or SetConsoleOutputCP() will not help with Unicode in general.

On other systems, you can simply output utf-8 (assuming that the terminal uses utf-8), for example in c ++ 11 :

 cout << u8"\u2713";

You can use boost::nowide::cout for portability: utf-8 strings are automatically decoded and WriteConsoleW() behind the frame, if necessary .