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Crupuk
Crupuk

Reputation: 297

Convert char* to wchar* in C

I would like to convert a char* string to a wchar* string in C.

I have found many answers, but most of them are for C++. Could you help me?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 21

Views: 59719

Answers (5)

mehrdad safa
mehrdad safa

Reputation: 1071

if you currently have ANSI chars. just insert an 0 ('\0') before each char and cast them to wchar_t*.

Upvotes: -4

Franky Rivera
Franky Rivera

Reputation: 553

what you're looking for is

mbstowcs

works just like the copy function from char* to char*

but in this case you're saving into a wchar_t*

Upvotes: 4

Nick Dandoulakis
Nick Dandoulakis

Reputation: 43110

Try swprintf with the %hs flag.

Example:

wchar_t  ws[100];
swprintf(ws, 100, L"%hs", "ansi string");

Upvotes: 30

user541686
user541686

Reputation: 210352

setlocale() followed by mbstowcs().

Upvotes: 5

Christoffer
Christoffer

Reputation: 12910

If you happen to have the Windows API availiable, the conversion function MultiByteToWideChar offers some configurable string conversion from different encodings to UTF-16. That might be more appropriate if you don't care too much about portability and don't want to figure out exactly what the implications of different locale settings are to the string converison.

Upvotes: 0

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