Is there a way to display the symbol of the poker card suits (hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades) in C?

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Hi everyone, as an exam test I have to program a solitaire. I am having difficulty showing the suits of the cards. If I convert the decimal number into an ASCII symbol, the output returns a question mark "?"; the same if I copy the character of a seed is converted directly to a question mark "?" from the compiler. Is there a way to show the sign instead of the question mark? As a compiler I use Dev-C ++ and the language is C.
Can someone please help me out?

What I have tried:

C#

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <io.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

#define PICCHE L"\u2660"
#define FIORI L"\u2663"
#define CUORI L"\u2665"
#define QUADRI L"\u2666"

int main()
{
	_setmode(_fileno(stdout), _O_U16TEXT);

	printf  ("A\n" QUADRI);
	printf  ("K\n" FIORI);
	printf  ("Q\n" CUORI);
	printf  ("J\n" PICCHE);

	_setmode(_fileno(stdout), _O_TEXT);

	return 0;
}

I tried as well but it returns the question mark :

C#

#include <stdio.h>
int main ()
{
	printf ("%c",5);
	return 0;
}

Posted 10-May-20 10:09am

Member 14827806

Updated 10-May-20 21:33pm

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#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main( ){
char diamond[2] = {'\4'}, club[2] = {'\5'}, heart[2] = {'\3'}, spade[2] = {'\6'};
cout << diamond << club << heart << spade;
return 0;
}

Posted 27-Jul-21 18:18pm

Member 15303665

Updated 27-Jul-21 18:47pm

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OriginalGriff 28-Jul-21 0:54am

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Maciej Los · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-10T20:08:00

Take a look at MSDN documentation: _setmode | Microsoft Docs[^]

C

// crt_setmodeunicode.c
// This program uses _setmode to change
// stdout to Unicode. Cyrillic and Ideographic
// characters will appear on the console 
//(if your console font supports those character sets). -- this part is very important!

#include <fcntl.h>
#include <io.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
    _setmode(_fileno(stdout), _O_U16TEXT);
    wprintf(L"\x043a\x043e\x0448\x043a\x0430 \x65e5\x672c\x56fd\n"); //wprintf is used instaed of printf
    return 0;
}