printing utf8 in glib

Question

Why utf8 symbols cannot be printed via glib functions?

Source code:

#include \"glib.h\"
#include 

int main() {
    g_print(\"марко\\n\");         


        

Answer 1

You need to initialize the locale's encoding by calling setlocale at your program's start.

setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "")

This is normally carried out for you if you use some initialization function like gtk_init(..) or similar.