Re: Question about IXmlWriter WriteRaw(string) and UTF-8

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:59:13 -0400
Message-ID:
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"Frank S" <OldGrouch@community.nospam> wrote in message
news:%23SuIZsQCJHA.1628@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl

To answer your questions, sXMLData is wstring. It is not UTF-16
however, because I load this string with results previously created
with IXMLWriter.


If it's not UTF-16, what is it? Also, I don't see how "it's not UTF-16"
follows from "created with IXMLWriter".

You were correct about the zero byte problem. This change to the test
code handled that problem:
CString s1(sXMLData.c_str());
CStringA s2;
int nUtf8Size;

s2 = s1;


This doesn't convert to UTF-8, but to the system's default code page. I
suspect you don't see the difference because all your characters are in
fact plain ASCII. You'll have problems when the string contains
international characters.

As far as I can tell, IXmlWriter::WriteRaw should work just fine for
you. Have you actually tried it before concluding you can't use it? If
so, exactly what problem did you encounter with it?
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