How to enable two locales at once with #pragma in Visual C++?

Question

As far as I know you can set your language with:

#pragma setlocale("language")

However you can only set it to one language. Anyone knows how to enable two languages in the same form in C++? Lithuanian and Russian in this case.

This is not standard C++ but rather specific to some implementation. You should add what implementation (compiler/platform) — David Rodríguez - dribeas, Apr 25 '13 at 21:00
What is a special symbol language? Is it the one you use to say @#$!? — n. m. could be an AI, Apr 25 '13 at 21:01
[According to MSDN](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3e22ty2t(v=vs.100).aspx) it's #pragma too. — Scott, Apr 25 '13 at 21:02
Can you describe in more detail what you want to see? Adhering to two locales at the same time would be contradictory. Do you want different elements of the form to adhere to different locales? — Drew Dormann, Apr 25 '13 at 21:13
When displaying my content I have a mix of lithuanian (ąčęėįųū) and russian symbols. Problem is I can't get them both to be displayed at the same time. If I set no locale I can use the lithuanian characters but get "?"'s intead of russian ones. If I set the locale to russian my lithuanian characters get replaced with russian ones. — Matt, Apr 25 '13 at 21:17

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 25 '13 at 21:25

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It seems that what you specifically want is to support the character set of both languages.

You can support all supported Unicode characters by specifying the character encoding UTF-8 in the locale.

#pragma setlocale("any_language.UTF-8")

Microsoft covers some details of using a multibyte character set here.

answered Apr 25 '13 at 21:25

Drew Dormann

Windows doesn't really support UTF-8. The standard way to get Unicode is not to use locales at all. You just use `wchar_t` with UTF-16 characters. – Cody Gray - on strike Apr 26 '13 at 05:36
@CodyGray you're saying that in Windows, wchar_t would support UTF-16 naturally? – Drew Dormann Apr 26 '13 at 05:39
Yes, that's right. Hard to find good documentation for this, maybe [here](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff381407.aspx)? – Cody Gray - on strike Apr 26 '13 at 05:40
@CodyGray that's interesting. You have my upvote if you can give a more informed answer. – Drew Dormann Apr 26 '13 at 05:42

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