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Description

Two small and simple functions for converting from Ascii to Unicode and vice-versa

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An Ascii or Unicode string

Target string must be large enough to hold the converted string

On Success: true

On Error: false if any of the strings are NULL

Modifies the target string

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By	Eugene Ciloci
Level	Intermediate
User Rating	4.0 (16 globes from 4 users)
Compatibility	C++ (general)
Category	Strings
World	C / C++
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API Declarations

/*##############################################################################
CharsetConversion.h
Description: Ascii<->Unicode conversion
Author: Eugene Ciloci (ciloci@sympatico.ca)
Last Modified: Sat Mar 30 02:07:54 2002
##############################################################################*/
#ifndef CHARSET_CONVERSION
#define CHARSET_CONVERSION
#include <stddef.h>
bool AsciiToUnicode(const char * szAscii, wchar_t * szUnicode);
bool UnicodeToAscii(const wchar_t * szUnicode, char * szAscii);
#endif

Source Code

/*##############################################################################
CharsetConversion.cpp
Description: Ascii<->Unicode conversion functions
Author: Eugene Ciloci (ciloci@sympatico.ca)
Last Modified: Sat Mar 30 02:07:54 2002
##############################################################################*/
#include <string.h>
#include "CharsetConversion.h"
/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Purpose: Convert an Ascii string to Unicode
Parameters: [in] szAscii - Ascii string to be converted
		[out] szUnicode - Unicode string to receive conversion
On Success: szUnicode contains converted string.
		Returns true
On Error: false if either string is NULL
------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
bool AsciiToUnicode(const char * szAscii, wchar_t * szUnicode)
{
	int len, i;
	if((szUnicode == NULL) || (szAscii == NULL))
		return false;
	len = strlen(szAscii);
	for(i=0;i<len+1;i++)
		*szUnicode++ = static_cast<wchar_t>(*szAscii++);
	return true;
}
/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Purpose: Convert a Unicode string to Ascii
Parameters: [in] szUnicode - Unicode string to be converted
			[out] szAscii - Ascii string to receive conversion
On Success: szAscii contains converted string
		Returns true
On Error: false if either string is NULL
------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
bool UnicodeToAscii(const wchar_t * szUnicode, char * szAscii)
{
	int len, i;
	if((szUnicode == NULL) || (szAscii == NULL))
		return false;
	len = wcslen(szUnicode);
	for(i=0;i<len+1;i++)
		*szAscii++ = static_cast<char>(*szUnicode++);
	return true;
}