Re: [Boost-users] UTF-16

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] UTF-16
From: Boris Schaeling (boris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-15 04:55:18

On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:41:16 +0200, Robert Dailey <rcdailey_at_[hidden]>  
wrote:

> [...]Great advice Zach. I'll definitely do this. However, it would be  
> nice to
> have an already-made conversion routine for UTF8 to UTF16. I'm hoping

The conversion routines you are looking for are std::mbsrtowcs() and  
std::wcsrtombs() in <cwchar>. You must set the global locale first before  
you use them so they know which multi-byte encoding they should use (try  
for example "en_US.UTF-8"). If you want your application to work on  
Windows, too, you can't use those functions unfortunately but must use  
MultiByteToWideChar() and WideCharToMultiByte() instead (as there is no  
UTF-8 locale on Windows).

The Unicode FAQ for Unix and Linux might also help:  
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html

Boris