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

[Andre Pang <ozone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14/12/2006, at 1:15 AM, Andre Pang wrote:

> 2.  Use the stupendously painful iconv() interface with a iconv_t  
> from "UTF-8" to "WCHAR_T".

For future reference, there's a file in the libiconv distribution's  
extras/ directory named iconv_string.h (public domain licensed).   
This gives a saner interface to iconv():

  extern int iconv_string (const char* tocode,
                           const char* fromcode,
                           const char* start,
                           const char* end,
                           char** resultp,
                           size_t* lengthp);

(Of course, I only find out about this afterwards :).


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