Re: iconv trouble

From:
Victor Bazarov <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 29 May 2009 17:57:55 -0400
Message-ID:
<gvplnq$v4a$1@news.datemas.de>
Daniel Luis dos Santos wrote:

I am trying to make a function that converts WCHAR_T strings to UTF-8.
After experimenting for a while, found out that I can only convert
standard ASCII chars. When I put a vowel with an accent (for example) I
always get a EILSEQ in errno. I am trying to convert using the following
test function :

void convTest() {
    
    wchar_t *str = L"a ?tring";
    
    char *inBuf = (char*)str;
    size_t inBufSize = sizeof(wchar_t)*wcslen(str);
    
    char *outBuf = (char*)malloc(1024);
    size_t outBufAvailSize = sizeof(char)*1024;
    
    iconv_t ds = iconv_open("UTF-8", "WCHAR_T");
    size_t converted = iconv(ds, &inBuf, &inBufSize, &outBuf,
&outBufAvailSize);
    if (converted == (size_t)-1)
        if (errno == EILSEQ)
            printf("invalid char sequence");
        else if (errno == EINVAL)
            printf("incomplete input");
        else if (errno == E2BIG)
            printf("not enough space");
}

The ? character causes an EILSEQ. I am in portugal with a portuguese
keyboard.


Are we supposed to know what 'iconv_open' and 'iconv' are?

V
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