Re: Writing unsigned char to std::ostream
Giovanni Dicanio wrote:
"David Wilkinson" <no-reply@effisols.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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Christof Meerwald wrote:
Why don't you use:
ostrm << '\xef' << '\xbb' << '\xbf';
or even
ostrm << "\xef\xbb\xbf";
Christof:
Because it seems it is not guaranteed to work.
David: it seems just fine (both compile and run) on both Windows and Kubuntu
(g++) ...
I don't understand the problem...
Giovanni:
I don't think it is a compiler issue so much as a hardware issue. Both
Windows and Kubuntu run on Intel platform, which has "sane" behavior.
But there are (apparently) systems where
char c = 0xFF;
creates a value that tests equal to 127. On such systems, it seems to
me, the BOM will not be written correctly. But Uli's method
unsigned char const utf8_bom[] = { 0xef, 0xbb, 0xbf, 0};
ostrm << utf8_bom << header << std::endl;
will work, because the bits in the individual characters are not changed
by the implementation of ostream::operator <<() for const unsigned char*
(which just casts to const char*).
--
David Wilkinson
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