converting to utf8?

[whatdoineed2do]

hi,

i've not done much i18n stuff before but i was wondering how, if given
a string (encoded as russian or kanji mb) how i would get this
converted to utf8. i'm working with forte compiler on solaris

i've something like:

const char* s = "...."; // some russian/kanji encoded
locale l("en_US.UTF8");
wstringstream cnv;
cnv.imbue(l);
cnv << s;
cout << "orig='" << s << "'\nconverted='" << cnv.str() << "'" <<
endl;

but this doesnt work. can anyone give me some advise?

thanks
ray

 

[James Kanze]

i've not done much i18n stuff before but i was wondering how, if given
a string (encoded as russian or kanji mb) how i would get this
converted to utf8. i'm working with forte compiler on solaris

i've something like:

const char* s = "...."; // some russian/kanji encoded
locale l("en_US.UTF8");
wstringstream cnv;
cnv.imbue(l);
cnv << s;
cout << "orig='" << s << "'\nconverted='" << cnv.str() << "'" <<
endl;

but this doesnt work. can anyone give me some advise?

The locale is only used for conversion when writing to or
reading from a file. A priori, you'll have to pass through
wchar, and use two different locales (in fact, two different
codecvt<wchar> facets).

 

[whatdoineed2do]

hi,

i've not done much i18n stuff before but i was wondering how, if given
a string (encoded as russian or kanji mb) how i would get this
converted to utf8. i'm working with forte compiler on solaris

i've something like:

const char* s = "...."; // some russian/kanji encoded
locale l("en_US.UTF8");
wstringstream cnv;
cnv.imbue(l);
cnv << s;
cout << "orig='" << s << "'\nconverted='" << cnv.str() << "'" <<
endl;

but this doesnt work. can anyone give me some advise?

thanks
ray

i managed to figure this out; using iconv(3C) -- this provides the
codepage conversion that i needed