Re: TCHAR * to WCHAR*
"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <rbv@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
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"Alex Blekhman" <tkfx.REMOVE@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" wrote:
The ANSI standard includes mbtowc and wctomb.
So, I'm out of excuses. :) The only rason I can think of is that
`std::string' was devised long before mbtowc/wctomb were standardized.
That's not true either.
The real reason is that std::string is a template instantiation of
std::basic_string<char>, and std::wstring of std::basic_string<wchar_t>,
and there's not a good way to express the conversion in a generic,
template-friendly way. So I would expect to find some loose functions in
the global namespace for the conversion, not member functions of
std::basic_string.
Turns out that the C++ standard library way to do it is std::codecvt:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0he30td8(vs.71).aspx
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