Re: [Boost-users] [serialization?] converting utf8 string to unicode wstring

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [serialization?] converting utf8 string to unicode wstring
From: Igor R (boost.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-08 15:54:24

> Er... I thought UTF8 *is* a form of Unicode?

Well, kind of..

Looks like you are trying to convert UTF8 to UTF16, for what reason?
>

Because there're lots of API that expect "real" unicode, i.e. wide-character
strings (wchar_t *).
But after thinking about it again... all the places, where I need it
converted, are in windows-specific code anyway, so I'd better keep it as is,
and where needed I'll just use MultiByteToWideChar().