How to print UTF-8 characters on console using C

Question

I have a C application where I receive a UTF-8 string aover a socket as a char*. Now I want to print it on the console using Eclipse CDT. How can I do this? What I get is usually something like "Günther" what should be "Günther"

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

The best answer given above was by Joachim Isaksson. Thank you, this ideed seems to be the problem. I solved it in Eclipse by setting the "Encoding" settings for the run configuration to UTF-8.