Re: UTF-8 support - char or wchar_t?

[Martin Sebor <sebor at roguewave dot com>]

Ole Laursen wrote:

> Martin Sebor <sebor@roguewave.com> writes:
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> > The most portable way to do this, though, is to forget about codecvt
> > and use iconv directly.
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> Thanks! What you are suggesting is to use a std::wostringstream,
> extract a std::wstring with str(), put the data inside a std::string
> and use an iconv wrapper to convert from the wchar_t encoding to
> UTF-8, right?

I don't think I suggested that. With iconv, unless you actually
want wchar_t, you can just convert ordinary multibyte characters
(say a char* encoded in ISO-8859-15 to a char* encoded in UTF-8
or vice versa). You don't need to involve wchar_t as an intermediate
representation as you might with codecvt (e.g., a char* in 8859 to
UCS-4 encoded wchar_t*, and then the same wchar_t* to UTF-8 with
another codecvt). I hope I didn't just confuse things for you :)

Martin