Re: converting to utf8?
On Jul 14, 1:42 pm, whatdoineed...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
i've not done much i18n stuff before but i was wondering how, if given
a string (encoded as russian or kanji mb) how i would get this
converted to utf8. i'm working with forte compiler on solaris
i've something like:
const char* s = "...."; // some russian/kanji encoded
locale l("en_US.UTF8");
wstringstream cnv;
cnv.imbue(l);
cnv << s;
cout << "orig='" << s << "'\nconverted='" << cnv.str() << "'" <<
endl;
but this doesnt work. can anyone give me some advise?
The locale is only used for conversion when writing to or
reading from a file. A priori, you'll have to pass through
wchar, and use two different locales (in fact, two different
codecvt<wchar> facets).
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