#Printing a UTF-8 Unicode character using windows cmd c compiler.

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humble crystal
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The character I would like to print is 'ə', using its unicode value '\u0259' because there is no ASCII 32 bits value for this character.
Attempting to print this code returns a warning then prints a question mark ('?').
I know this could be done easily in Python but I wish to use C because it is the one language I'm learning at school and the one language I'll be evaluated in this year.

What I would like to do is being able to print this character in cmd using c code, or any unicode character for that matter. Is there maybe some kind of library I can install to get UTF8 characters?

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

void main (void)
{
    char myChar = '\u0259';  // Unicode value for "ə"
    printf("%c", myChar);
}

Compilation :

unicode.c
unicode.c(6): warning C4566: character represented by universal-character-name '\u0259' cannot be represented in the current code page (1252)
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 14.33.31630.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

/out:unicode.exe
unicode.obj

C:\FILES\code\c\z>unicode
?
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glacial bluff
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You teminal probably dosen't support the ə character

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but if you really want it

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just do

# 
char str[] = "ə";
printf("%s", str);
fickle hedge
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