CODEWITHSUNDEEP
c++unicode
user6416335
user6416335

Reputation:

Define unicode string as byte array

Let's say we have file main.cpp in windows-1251 encoding with such content:

int main()
{
     wchar_t* ws = L"котэ"; //cat in russian
     return 0;
}

Everything is fine if we compile this in VisualStudio, BUT we gonna compile it with GCC which default encoding for source code is UTF-8. Of course we can convert file encoding or set option "-finput-charset=windows-1251" for compiler, but what if not? There is some way to do this by replacing raw text into hex UTF32 bytes:

int main()
    {
         wchar_t* ws = (wchar_t*)"\x3A\x04\x00\x00\x3E\x04\x00\x00\x42\x04\x00\x00\x4D\x04\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"; //cat in russian
         return 0;
    }

But it's kind of agly: 4 letters becomes a 20 bytes ((

How else it can be done?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1339

Answers (1)

m-bitsnbites
m-bitsnbites

Reputation: 1084

What you need is to use a file encoding that is understood by both GCC and VS. It seems to me that saving the file in UTF-8 encoding is the way forward.

Also see: How can I make Visual Studio save all files as UTF-8 without signature on Project or Solution level?

Upvotes: 1

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