Nullptr, // unused - no conversion required in this stepĠ, // request size of destination buffer, in chars Utf16.GetLength(), // length of source UTF-16 string, in WCHARs Utf16.GetString(), // source UTF-16 string Get the length, in chars, of the resulting UTF-8 stringĬonst int utf8Length = ::WideCharToMultiByte( Safely fails if an invalid UTF-16 character is encounteredĬonst DWORD flags = WC_ERR_INVALID_CHARS "Code page" value used with WideCharToMultiByte() for UTF-8 conversion DESC: Converts Unicode UTF-16 (Windows default) text to Unicode UTF-8.ĬStringA Utf16ToUtf8(const CStringW& utf16) Utf16.ReleaseBufferSetLength(utf16Length) before returning the string to the caller Don't forget to release internal CString buffer Utf16Length) // size of destination buffer, in WCHARs Utf16Buffer, // pointer to destination buffer Do the conversion from UTF-8 to UTF-16 WCHAR* const utf16Buffer = utf16.GetBuffer(utf16Length) Allocate destination buffer to store the resulting UTF-16 string Nullptr, // unused - no conversion done in this stepĠ) // request size of destination buffer, in WCHARs Utf8.GetLength(), // length of source UTF-8 string, in chars
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Get the length, in WCHARs, of the resulting UTF-16 stringĬonst int utf16Length = ::MultiByteToWideChar(ĬodePageUtf8, // source string is in UTF-8 Safely fails if an invalid UTF-8 character is encounteredĬonst DWORD flags = MB_ERR_INVALID_CHARS
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"Code page" value used with MultiByteToWideChar() for UTF-8 conversion DESC: Converts Unicode UTF-8 text to Unicode UTF-16 (Windows default).ĬStringW Utf8ToUtf16(const CStringA& utf8) *** Functions to convert between Unicode UTF-8 and Unicode UTF-16 *** Basically, ATL CString(W) stores Unicode text encoded in UTF-16, and std::string stores UTF-8-encoded text.Ĭode working with ATL’s CStringW/A classes and throwing exceptions via AtlThrow() can be found here on GitHub.
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New updated modern C++ code can be found here on GitHub.Ĭ++ reusable code for mixed ATL/STL conversions can be found here on GitHub. Unicode Encoding Conversions with STL Strings and Win32 APIs For fresh updated and richer information and modern C++ usage, please read my MSDN Magazine article (published on the 2016 September issue):