title: Displaying extended ASCII characters
body: <p>In Visual Studio 2005 on 32-bit Windows, why doesn't my console display characters from 128 to 255?</p>
  
  <p>for example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>cout &lt;&lt; "¿" &lt;&lt; endl;  //inverted question mark
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Output:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>┐
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  </code></pre>