Print Arabic text in Vala

Question

I tried

print ("السلام عليكم\n");

it outputs

?????? ?????

After looking at the generated c code

...
g_print ("السلام عليكم\n");
...

it appears that they're using g_print() which it is not doing that same as printf() in C which works perfectly fine with Arabic.

So, is there anyway to print arabic text in Vala?

[printing utf8 in glib](http://stackoverflow.com/q/3092354/1606345) — David Ranieri, Nov 21 '16 at 09:25

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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Just add this to the start of your code:

Intl.setlocale (LocaleCategory.ALL, "");

By leaving the second parameter an empty string you're loading the LOCALE that the current user has set (which is likely to be a UTF-8 based one on modern Linux systems).

Windows is a different story here ...

See also:

edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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answered Nov 21 '16 at 10:52

Jens Mühlenhoff

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Or from Vala 0.28 you can use `Intl.setlocale ();` because `LocaleCategory.ALL, ""` are now the default arguments. – AlThomas Nov 21 '16 at 11:14

Print Arabic text in Vala

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