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Started by Dovyman August 04, 2004 11:05 PM

6 comments, last by snk_kid 19 years, 8 months ago

Dovyman

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August 04, 2004 11:05 PM

How can I convert a wchar_t* to a char* ?? I've tried all sorts of methods but nothing seems to work right.. ahhhhhhhhhh *kills self*

Etnu

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August 04, 2004 11:23 PM

wcstombs().

Alternatively, just stick with unicode for everything. it's only going to make things easier as more and more libraries are workign exclusively with unicode.

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bobstevens

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August 05, 2004 01:03 AM

UTF-16 is terrible. I doubt libraries won't start using it. Or at least I *hope* so... it seems like you can never overestimate the software industry. UTF-8 is superior in all ways but one (predictable data size).

Zahlman

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August 05, 2004 01:17 AM

Note that "predictable data size" helps out an awful lot with "fast random access". :/

smart_idiot

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August 05, 2004 06:00 AM

UTF-8 is my preference. It has the advantage that it's 'backward compatible' with ASCII.

But I don't know why I'm saying this since the original poster killed himself.

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Fruny

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August 05, 2004 06:17 AM

Considering that UTF-16 does represent some code points as surrogate pairs, UTF-16 isn't even superior to UTF-8 in the domain of "predictable data size".

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Dovyman

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August 05, 2004 08:01 AM

Well in the theme of sticking totally with unicode, what I'm really trying to do is convert a string to a float.. so is there a unicode version of atof?

snk_kid

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August 05, 2004 08:47 AM

Quote:Original post by Dovyman
How can I convert a wchar_t* to a char* ??

I've tried all sorts of methods but nothing seems to work right.. ahhhhhhhhhh *kills self*

Quote:Original post by Dovyman
Well in the theme of sticking totally with unicode, what I'm really trying to do is convert a string to a float.. so is there a unicode version of atof?

Assuming your using c++ i not sure but what about the wide character version of stringstream? e.g.

#include <string>#include <sstream>#include <iostream>int main() {   std::wstring s(L"0.545");   std::wstringstream wss(s);   float f = 0.0f;   wss >> f;   std::cout << f << '\n';   return 0;}

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