UTF-8 Russian text output

no-reply@allegro.cc (Sancha) — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:26:47 +0000

Is this the correct approach in order to output text in Russian?
How do I convert the char string into ALLEGRO_USTR*
Any help appreciated?

al_draw_ustr(myFont, color, xPos, yPos, NULL, "веков");

no-reply@allegro.cc (weapon_S) — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:41:16 +0000

Although I haven't used it yet, I believe you either use al_ustr_new or al_ref_cstr. Maybe Allegro handles UTF-8 internally, even if you don't use the USTR functions.
In any case also make sure your source file's encoding is UTF-8

no-reply@allegro.cc (Sancha) — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:30:00 +0000

Perfect! Thanks.

al_draw_ustr(myFont, color, xPos, yPos, NULL, al_ustr_new("веков"));

Saved source file (MSVC2010) using encoding: Unicode (UTF-8 without signature) - Codepage 65001

no-reply@allegro.cc (torhu) — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:30:14 +0000

Should work with simply al_draw_text too, Allegro 5 always treats strings as being UTF-8.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Peter Wang) — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 04:33:50 +0000

And al_ustr_new allocates memory.