c# special characters compare strings

Question

I have a problem with these two special characters from romanian language: ț and ș.

Example:
String s = "ștrumf";

The result is ?trumf when I write the string to console. Does anyone know what may be the reason?

Console font may be missing accented characters. Try choosing a different font in the console's settings dialog. — Sergey Kalinichenko, Jul 26 '17 at 10:12
Does changing that to `string s = @"ștrumf";` make any difference? — Ortund, Jul 26 '17 at 10:13
Is your only problem how it looks on the console? Then modify the title. Otherwise it's not helpful for future readers. — Tim Schmelter, Jul 26 '17 at 10:17
I suppose you are using Visual Studio, what happen if you inspect the value of s variable breakpointing just on the next line? Do you see the string correctly? — Matteo Defanti, Jul 26 '17 at 10:21

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 26 '17 at 10:13

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Try this

Console.OutputEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;

answered Jul 26 '17 at 10:13

Kemal Güler

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Note that you need `using System.Text;`. – Ian H. Jul 26 '17 at 10:16

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 26 '17 at 10:16

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Try using this before sending output:

Console.OutputEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;

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answered Jul 26 '17 at 10:16

Tahsin Gül

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 26 '17 at 10:18

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You, should set Console.OutputEncoding as UTF8

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Console.OutputEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
        String s = "ștrumf";
        Console.WriteLine(s);
        Console.ReadLine();
    }

answered Jul 26 '17 at 10:18

Anar Iskenderov

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c# special characters compare strings

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