如何在 C# 的控制台输入 & output 日语字符（假名）？

Question

After a bit of Googling, I figured out how to print out Japanese characters to the console using Console.OutputEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8; .

I was hoping I'd also be able to take them in as an input with Console.InputEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8; however that doesn't seem to be doing the trick.

I tried to convert it from string to byte[] & back based on suggestions online, but that didn't seem to help much:

byte[] bytes = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(input); // Even tried Encoding.UTF8...
input = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes);

I would like to use a wchar_t equivalent, but I can't seem to find one.

// the entire program.
Console.OutputEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8; // works for output, after adjusting console font
Console.InputEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8; // didn't help, thought I'd get lucky

Console.WriteLine("Test a kana: ");
string input = Console.ReadLine();

// is it working yet?
Console.WriteLine(input);

How do I input & output Japanese characters (kana) to the console in C#?

Answer 1

Set the input encoding to Unicode:

Console.InputEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;