conversion to Unicode

[rase]

Could somebody be so kind and tell a newbie how to convert a string of single byte characters (char) to a string of Unicode characters (wchar) in a way that the characters with more than 7 bits (e. g. German Umlaute, French accents) are treated correctly?

[rase]

In the meantime I found a solution: the function btowc converts single characters to Unicode, including 8 bit characters. Does somebody know a better solution, for example for a whole string?

[Judith_W_Intel]

Quoting - rase

In the meantime I found a solution: the function btowc converts single characters to Unicode, including 8 bit characters. Does somebody know a better solution, for example for a whole string?

Does mbtowc do what you want?

[JenniferJ · Accepted solution]

Check this thread - http://www.codeguru.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-193852.html

Jennifer

[dpeterc]

I use "iconv" library for this purpose. It allows you to make arbitrary conversions from different source and destinantion encodings.
http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
It is licensed as LGPL, so you can also use it in commercial products.
This library is standard on Linux, used by many programs. So if your platform is Linux, you can expect it to be already installed.

[rase]

Thanks a lot for your answers. Judith: the function does what I want, but I suspected that there are other solutions which were provided by the other contributors.

[woleakande]

Hi rase,

Which language do you prefer.