{"id":12604,"date":"2024-03-14T16:11:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T16:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-output-chinese-strings-in-c-language\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T04:00:08","slug":"how-to-output-chinese-strings-in-c-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-output-chinese-strings-in-c-language\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Print Chinese in C Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In C language, the printf function can be used to output Chinese strings. It is important to note that Chinese characters are stored in Unicode encoding in the program, so the wide character type wchar_t is needed to represent Chinese characters.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an example program demonstrating how to output Chinese strings.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-meta\">#<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">include<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-string\">&lt;stdio.h&gt;<\/span><\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-meta\">#<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">include<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-string\">&lt;locale.h&gt;<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-type\">int<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title function_\">main<\/span><span class=\"hljs-params\">()<\/span> {\r\n    setlocale(LC_ALL, <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"\"<\/span>);  <span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/\/ \u8bbe\u7f6e\u672c\u5730\u5316\u73af\u5883\uff0c\u652f\u6301\u8f93\u51fa\u4e2d\u6587\u5b57\u7b26<\/span>\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-type\">wchar_t<\/span> str[] = <span class=\"hljs-string\">L\"\u4f60\u597d\uff0c\u4e16\u754c\uff01\"<\/span>;  <span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/\/ \u4f7f\u7528\u5bbd\u5b57\u7b26\u7c7b\u578b\u8868\u793a\u4e2d\u6587\u5b57\u7b26\u4e32<\/span>\r\n    wprintf(<span class=\"hljs-string\">L\"%ls\\n\"<\/span>, str);  <span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/\/ \u4f7f\u7528wprintf\u8f93\u51fa\u4e2d\u6587\u5b57\u7b26\u4e32<\/span>\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">return<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-number\">0<\/span>;\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>To correctly display Chinese characters, it is necessary to use a localization environment that supports Chinese characters. This can be set through the setlocale function. On Windows systems, it can be set to setlocale(LC_ALL, &#8220;&#8221;) to use the system&#8217;s default localization environment; on Linux systems, it can be set to setlocale(LC_ALL, &#8220;zh_CN.UTF-8&#8221;) to use the &#8220;zh_CN.UTF-8&#8221; localization environment.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the wprintf function is used to output wide-character strings, with the format specifier %ls being used specifically for wide-character strings. It is important to note that wide-character strings should have an L prefix to indicate their type.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In C language, the printf function can be used to output Chinese strings. It is important to note that Chinese characters are stored in Unicode encoding in the program, so the wide character type wchar_t is needed to represent Chinese characters. 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