How to display Degree Celsius in a string in C++

Question

I need to display a string with values like 36 Deg Celsius.

string sFinish = NULL;
string sValue = "36"; 
sFinish.append(sValue);
sFinish.append(" Deg Celsuis");
cout<<"Degree = "<<sFinish;

I am not able to figure out how to display degree (o symbol) instead of writing "Deg Celsius".

If you just copy paste "°" string into code - it shows extra character - like this "Â°".

If there is no degree symbol on your keyboard, here is one `°` you can copy-paste in your code. — Frédéric Hamidi, May 21 '14 at 07:54
@YodanTauber : Is their a way we can display it with copy pasting? :) — Mike Portnoy, May 21 '14 at 07:57
No no.... u didnt get my question :) I mean any other alternative? converting ascii value of degree and then storing it.... — Mike Portnoy, May 21 '14 at 07:58
Does it appear like that in your source code or in your output (e.g. console)? Have you tried saving your source as UTF-8? — Yodan Tauber, May 21 '14 at 08:06
Why was this closed? This is [a nontrivial question](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html). — Kyle Strand, Sep 16 '15 at 20:38

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered May 21 '14 at 08:17

13

Try:

std::cout << "Temperature: " << sValue << "\370";

answered May 21 '14 at 08:17

Daniel

3

+1, but `'\370'` To show that it's all only one character would probably be better. – scohe001 May 21 '14 at 08:22
Thanks... this works :) I also tried "\u2103" and this can be an alternate option :) – Mike Portnoy May 21 '14 at 08:29

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

5

You might find the following link helpful for the full ascii table.

But to summarize, this would do fine

char * val = "37";
string temp(val);
temp.append("\xB0");    
cout << temp;

edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

Community

answered May 21 '14 at 08:34

tuskcode

I found that \370 have the wrong character but \0xB0 gave the correct one. – user8908459 Sep 06 '19 at 02:23

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 21 '14 at 08:30

2

Just in-case if anyone wants to try this:

sFinish.append("\u2103");

this will display Deg celsius :)

answered May 21 '14 at 08:30

Mike Portnoy

3 Answers3