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How to use wifstream to read a unicode file..
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Hi All,
Currently I am doing one project related to unicode file reading & writing. I got my result using CFile & using WcharToMultibyte,MultiByteToWchar conversion functions. But I have a doubt whether those functions work fine if the unichar is more than 2 bytes.
Now I want to read the file(UTF8,16(BE),16(LE)) using wifstream..
Can anyone help me???
Currently I am doing one project related to unicode file reading & writing. I got my result using CFile & using WcharToMultibyte,MultiByteToWchar conversion functions. But I have a doubt whether those functions work fine if the unichar is more than 2 bytes.
Now I want to read the file(UTF8,16(BE),16(LE)) using wifstream..
Can anyone help me???
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unichar can be more than 2 bytes? I thought it was always 2 bytes.
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Originally Posted by WolfPack
unichar can be more than 2 bytes? I thought it was always 2 bytes.
The size of wchar_t is operating system dependent. On MS-Windows wchar_t is defined as unsigned short. *nix computers it is unsigned long. And the UNICODE standards say that they intend to have 64-bit wchr_t.
That becomes a very big problem when attempting to port a UNICODE file between operating systems.
smality: No sure if this will help or not.
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Originally Posted by Ancient Dragon
The size of wchar_t is operating system dependent. On MS-Windows wchar_t is defined as unsigned short. *nix computers it is unsigned long. And the UNICODE standards say that they intend to have 64-bit wchr_t.
That becomes a very big problem when attempting to port a UNICODE file between operating systems.
smality: No sure if this will help or not.
this time i am trying use wistream...i willl read byte by byte......... and after getting the BOM ..then i will read all the bytes for a unichar...but if i get the byte then how to convert it back to unichar to show in textbox or listControl..
Do you have any idea regarding wistream application
thanks..
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I don't use c++ streams for UNICODE for the reasons you describe -- its a lot easier to use C's FILE, fopen() in binary mode, fread() and fwrite(). You don't have to worry about conversion that way. That works providing you don't want to transport the file from one operating system to another and you don't want to use another editor such as Notepad.exe to read it.
If you still want to use wfstreams, you can use mbstowcs() to convert from char* to wchar_t*, or wcstombs() to convert the other direction.
If you still want to use wfstreams, you can use mbstowcs() to convert from char* to wchar_t*, or wcstombs() to convert the other direction.
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Originally Posted by Ancient Dragon
If you still want to use wfstreams, you can use mbstowcs() to convert from char* to wchar_t*, or wcstombs() to convert the other direction.
VC compiler is not designed in that way..
Thanks,
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you will probably have to write your own conversion functions that compress those 32-bit characters into 16 or 8 bit characters. But that may not work if the data requires all (or most) 32 bits to store each character, such as needed by many of the eastern languages (Chines, Japanese, etc).
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