I need to convert between wstring and string. I figured out, that using codecvt facet should do the trick, but it doesn't seem to work for utf-8 locale.
My idea is, that when I read utf-8 encoded file to chars, one utf-8 character is read into two normal characters (which is how utf-8 works). I'd like to create this utf-8 string from wstring representation for library I use in my code.
Does anybody know how to do it?
I already tried this:
locale mylocale("cs_CZ.utf-8");
mbstate_t mystate;
wstring mywstring = L"čřžýáí";
const codecvt<wchar_t,char,mbstate_t>& myfacet =
use_facet<codecvt<wchar_t,char,mbstate_t> >(mylocale);
codecvt<wchar_t,char,mbstate_t>::result myresult;
size_t length = mywstring.length();
char* pstr= new char [length+1];
const wchar_t* pwc;
char* pc;
// translate characters:
myresult = myfacet.out (mystate,
mywstring.c_str(), mywstring.c_str()+length+1, pwc,
pstr, pstr+length+1, pc);
if ( myresult == codecvt<wchar_t,char,mbstate_t>::ok )
cout << "Translation successful: " << pstr << endl;
else cout << "failed" << endl;
return 0;
which returns 'failed' for cs_CZ.utf-8 locale and works correctly for cs_CZ.iso8859-2 locale.
The code below might help you :)
#include <codecvt>
#include <string>
// convert UTF-8 string to wstring
std::wstring utf8_to_wstring (const std::string& str)
{
std::wstring_convert<std::codecvt_utf8<wchar_t>> myconv;
return myconv.from_bytes(str);
}
// convert wstring to UTF-8 string
std::string wstring_to_utf8 (const std::wstring& str)
{
std::wstring_convert<std::codecvt_utf8<wchar_t>> myconv;
return myconv.to_bytes(str);
}