processing other languages using c++

[amitjaspal]

Hello everyone....
I wanted to know how can i get a string to contain text other than asci values.
I want to process Hindi(India's National Language)...so i need a string to manipulate text in Hindi but how can a string contain Hindi text...i m puzzled...
And how can i print these text on the output screen....i m totally confused....
plzz help me..

[Bazzy]

You should use an encoding like Unicode, to store it use a wstring.
If you want to output that on the console window, that is much harder

[amitjaspal]

actually i have to read text from a file which is in HINDI(India's National Language)..........I want to take that text into a string and display
it on the screen..........i tried using wstring but it gives me error ....can anybody plzz help me.....and if u can give link to some tutorials for manipulating strings containing UNICODE text that would be great!!!!!

[Bazzy]

To read from a file you need to know the encoding ( it is specified in the first few bytes ) and then read it accordingly