Can't read special characters with scanf [duplicate] - arrays

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I'm building a system and i need a char inside a struct to receive a name and 2 values, but when I see the result, the name is always broken from a special character.
#define NOMINMAX
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
typedef struct
{
float preco;
int quant;
char* prod[50];
} info;
void imprime(info j)
{
printf("|| Produto: %s || preço: %.2f || quantidade: %d ||\n", j.prod, j.preco, j.quant);
}
int main()
{
SetConsoleCP(CP_UTF8);
SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8);
system("color 0F");
info lojas[50];
for (int x = 0; x < 1; x++)
{
printf("Digite o nome do produto: ");
scanf(" %[^\n]s", &lojas[x].prod);
printf("\nDigite o preço do produto: ");
scanf(" %f", &lojas[x].preco);
printf("\nDigite a quantidade desejada do produto: ");
scanf(" %d", &lojas[x].quant);
system("cls");
}
for (int x = 0; x < 1; x++)
{
imprime(lojas[x]);
}
}
imput:
Digite o nome do produto: Açucar
Digite o preço do produto: 1
Digite a quantidade desejada do produto: 1
expected output:
|| Produto: Açucar || preço: 1.00 || quantidade: 1 ||
result received
|| Produto: A || preço: 1.00 || quantidade: 1 ||
I think the problem may be in these lines:
SetConsoleCP(CP_UTF8);
SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8);
without them the code works, but the special characters inside printf stop working.
I already tried to use the <locale.h> library but for reasons I don't know it doesn't work in my compiler
I use the embarcadeiro dev-c++

Answer 1

Hi, that's because in C, you should scan a string with another function like gets().
For that IDK if you have to add the library <strings.h> but an example is:
int main () {
char str[50];
printf("Inster a string: ");
gets(str);
printf("The string is: %s",str);
return(0);
}
I recommend you to add the library <string.h> because its easier to make more functions.
See you :)