Re: [Boost-users] Fwd: Lexical cast between narrow and wide strings

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Fwd: Lexical cast between narrow and wide strings
From: gast128 (gast128_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-06-11 02:23:08

Gavin Lambert <gavinl <at> compacsort.com> writes:

> std::wstring wide_string = to_utf<wchar_t>(latin1_string,"Latin1");
> 
> is a conversion to UTF-16 from "Latin1", which is the most common ANSI 
> codepage (and there's discussion on there for using other codepages). 
> What more were you after?
> 
> (Yes, I know that UCS-2 and UTF-16 are not the same, but the differences 
> are usually insignificant in practice.  In particular modern Windows 
> systems all support UTF-16.)

If the end result is Ansi and ucs-2 then it is ok (besides the misleading name).

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