How do I print a bullet character to the console?

Question

This is my code:

Console.WriteLine("•");

Or this:

Console.WriteLine("\u2022");

The result (on my computer):

*beep*

The desired result:

•

How can I make the above character appear on my console?

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_{I understand where the beep comes from, as the bullet is translated into an ASCII BELL character. This question came about while trying to understand more about codepage 437.}

Answer 1

This seems to solve the problem much easier than the other options listed. (And it's available now, even if it wasn't when the question was originally asked.)

Console.OutputEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;

Answer 2

I just remembered a Windows console mode that doesn't process ASCII codes such as the bell and linefeed. I need these functions:

[DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
static extern IntPtr GetStdHandle(int handle);

[DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
static extern bool SetConsoleMode(IntPtr handle, int mode);

Before I try writing to the console, I do this:

SetConsoleMode(GetStdHandle(-11), 2);

This fetches a handle to the native screen buffer attached to stdout, and disables the ENABLE_PROCESSED_OUTPUT flag.

Console.WriteLine("•");

Output:

•♪◙

Whoops, that means it won't process the linefeed and carriage return that come from WriteLine.

Console.Write("•");

Output:

•

Bingo!

Now if I want to revert the console back to 'normal' mode before printing more text, I can do this:

SetConsoleMode(GetStdHandle(-11), 3);