#include <string>
#include <cstring>
#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>

int main(void)
{
// use utf8 literal
std::string test = u8"1°à€3§4ç5@の,は,でした,象形字 ;";

// set code page to utf8
SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8);

// Enable buffering to prevent VS from chopping up UTF-8 byte sequences
setvbuf(stdout, nullptr, _IOFBF, 1000);

// printing std::string to std::cout, not std::wstring to std::wcout
std::cout << test << std::endl;
}