Thanks. I guess I'm stuck with looping for now. At least it is looping in JS and not in C.
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Chad Austin <[email protected]> wrote: > C++11 has four character types: > > char: 1 byte > wchar_t: unspecified character type equal to or larger than char (in > practice, 16-bit on some platforms, 32-bit on others) > char16_t: 16-bit quantity representing a UTF-16 code unit > char32_t: 32-bit quantity representing a Unicode code point > > JavaScript strings, unfortunately, happen to be defined as arrays of > UTF-16 code units. > > Thus, if you assume that your application uses wchar_t as if it was > char16_t, which it sounds like you are, then you can map directly from > std::wstring or wchar_t* to JavaScript strings. > > embind, as policy, assumes that wchar_t is approximately equal to char16_t. > > I don't believe there is a more efficient mechanism than looping from > character to character in JavaScript. I think someone once proposed a set > of proper ArrayBuffer -> String text decoders, but I don't know if that > proposal gained traction. > > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My C app uses all wchar_t (16-bit chars). How do I send strings of these >> back and forth between C and JS? I am currently looping through char by >> char but this seems inefficient since JS is already using 16-bit strings. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "emscripten-discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Chad Austin > Technical Director, IMVU > http://engineering.imvu.com <http://www.imvu.com/members/Chad/> > http://chadaustin.me > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "emscripten-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/emscripten-discuss/R0-SDIRfRho/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "emscripten-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
