| Subject: Converting character streams to Unicode |
| Group: microsoft.public.msdn.general |
| Date: 4/10/2008 7:06:21 AM |
| From: "Keith MacDonald" [Email Address Protection] |
MultiByteToWideChar does not seem to be an appropriate API for converting DBCS or UTF-8 streams to UTF-16, because it requires an integral number of those characters in its source buffer. However, .Net has a Decoder class, which is documented as follows: "A Decoder object maintains state information between successive calls to GetChars or Convert() methods so it can correctly decode byte sequences that span blocks. The Decoder also preserves trailing bytes at the end of data blocks and uses the trailing bytes in the next decoding operation. Therefore, GetDecoder and GetEncoder are useful for network transmission and file operations because those operations often deal with blocks of data instead of a complete data stream." That's exactly what I need, but I don't want to use .Net. Is there a way of achieving the same result using a Windows API? Thanks. |
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