Why does wprintf transliterate Russian text in Unicode into Latin on Linux?
Because conversion of wide characters is done according to the currently set locale. By default a C program always starts with a “C” locale which only supports ASCII characters. You have to switch to any Russian or UTF-8 locale first: setlocale(LC_ALL, “ru_RU.utf8”); // Russian Unicode setlocale(LC_ALL, “en_US.utf8”); // English US Unicode Or to a current … Read more