Re: [coders] Converting a UTF-8 string to a wchar_t (in C)

[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

--
Martin