On 14/12/2006, at 9:17 AM, Martin Pool wrote:
On 14/12/2006, at 1:15am, Andre Pang wrote:
I have a C string (char*) that's encoded in UTF-8. I'd like to
convert this to a wide string (wchar_t*). I've done plenty of
reading about mbstowcs(3), iconv(3) and friends, and from what I
understand, I have two options:
1. First, setlocale() to some bogus UTF-8 locale (such as
"en_US.UTF-8", and then use mbstowcs() to perform the conversion.
2. Use the stupendously painful iconv() interface with a iconv_t
from "UTF-8" to "WCHAR_T".
3. Just write your own version of it, or copy from the standard.
Duplicating it may be kind of gross, but it's probably only ~15-20
lines and if utf-8 -> ucs4 is all you need then using a library may
not be worth it.
Yep, that's another option of course. However, I have a very bad
aversion to re-implementing stuff when there's perfectly good
libraries for the task, especially something like Unicode support
which is far too easy to bollox up.
Fixed iconv though, so it's all good now!
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