Outputting irish language characters (cmd.exe) from c#

Question

I am trying to create a command line program capable of outputting different languages.

Is there a way to set the encoding for outputting to the command line through Console.WriteLine?

I want to swap between utf-8 and shift-JIS and not assume the command shell program is in the right format.

Just to add more information about this. My current code reads in a file which has special characters:

"Fadó, fadó"

but the output doesn't properly display the special characters:

"Fado, fado"

I am simply using Console.WriteLine:

foreach (string s in lines)
{
     Console.WriteLine(s);
}

I have not figure out how to set the encoding for Console.WriteLine. Is it even possible, or is there an alternative that someone can point out?

Answer 1

Seems you need to use Unicodeencoding.

string[] lines = new[] { "Fadó", "fadó" };
Console.OutputEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;

foreach (string s in lines) { Console.WriteLine(s); }