How to convert to another encoding?

[Vlad]

I have one problem. The company uses files with contents in German
language but stored in Central European DOS-encoding (852). The
problem is to write a program which converts it to windows-1252
encoding (default encoding on m machine).
I wrote a simple code (VC++):

ifstream old;
locale loc("German_Germany.852");
old.imbue(loc);
old.open(oldName);

ofstream newf(newName);
newf << old.rdBuf();

newf.close();
old.close();

But it doesn't convert anything!
What's wrong?

 

[tom_usenet]

I have one problem. The company uses files with contents in German
language but stored in Central European DOS-encoding (852). The
problem is to write a program which converts it to windows-1252
encoding (default encoding on m machine).
I wrote a simple code (VC++):

ifstream old;
locale loc("German_Germany.852");
old.imbue(loc);
old.open(oldName);

ofstream newf(newName);
newf << old.rdBuf();

newf.close();
old.close();

But it doesn't convert anything!
What's wrong?

Perhaps your compiler doesn't have the relevent encoding codecvt
facet. The relevant one can be found in Dinkumware's libcoreX:
http://www.dinkumware.com/libDCorX.html.

Tom