is it possible to overload wcout << operator to substitute it with WriteConsoleW?

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The thing is that MinGW compiled program has problems with printing non-ascii chars on console through wcout, the output may show characters from different codepage or be completely blank. But winapi WriteConsoleW works perfectly. So I ask if there is a possibility to change behavior of << operator so it would aways invoke winapi method.

(I didn't find any examples how to do it and I'm new to c++, there is lot of examples how to overload an object but not how to do it with string or wide char array.)

Yes, I think streambuf is the right place to do this. – Jerry Coffin Dec 15 '12 at 18:27 — Jerry Coffin, Dec 15 '12 at 18:27

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 15 '12 at 18:29

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You can create a suitable stream buffer sending characters wherever you need to send them. You can use rdbuf() to set the stream buffer used by std::wcout. I don't think I have provided an example using wchar_t as character type in the past but it would work just as the plenty examples for char.

edited Dec 15 '12 at 18:29

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is it possible to overload wcout << operator to substitute it with WriteConsoleW?

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