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How to convert utf-8 to (strcmp type)? [message #30900]

Fri, 28 January 2011 02:24

JoseB
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Hello
How can i convert utf-8 String variable in order to pass it to the strcmp() C++ function?

Thank you

JoseB

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Re: How to convert utf-8 to (strcmp type)? [message #30904 is a reply to message #30900]

Fri, 28 January 2011 08:35

koldo
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JoseB wrote on Fri, 28 January 2011 02:24

Hello
How can i convert utf-8 String variable in order to pass it to the strcmp() C++ function?

Thank you

JoseB

Hello JoseB

Could you indicate more details?.

Best regards
Iñaki

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Re: How to convert utf-8 to (strcmp type)? [message #30906 is a reply to message #30904]

Fri, 28 January 2011 10:16

JoseB
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Basically I have a upp GUI app and a command line program which is called from that upp application. I want to pass it an argument with is a string or better a char * array. Internally this char * array will be used by strcmp.

JoseB

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Re: How to convert utf-8 to (strcmp type)? [message #30909 is a reply to message #30906]

Fri, 28 January 2011 10:22

cbpporter
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Do you want to convert it to a legacy encoding? strcmp will work for equality test with utf-8, but not with comparison.

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Re: How to convert utf-8 to (strcmp type)? [message #30941 is a reply to message #30909]

Fri, 28 January 2011 23:41

koldo
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Hello JoseB

I do not understand well the question but, if you require to pass a String to an API function you would have to do a ToSystemCharset().

For example, in Functions4U/FUnctios4U.cpp ReadOnly() function:

- In Windows, GetFileAttributesW() and SetFileAttributesW() require a ToSystemCharsetW().

- In POSIX, stat() and chmod() require a ToSystemCharset().

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Iñaki

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Re: How to convert utf-8 to (strcmp type)? [message #30963 is a reply to message #30909]

Sun, 30 January 2011 12:49

mirek
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cbpporter wrote on Fri, 28 January 2011 04:22

Do you want to convert it to a legacy encoding? strcmp will work for equality test with utf-8, but not with comparison.

Actually, it will work for comparison as well, only the results might not be what you have expected...

Anyway, the same is true for 'legacy encoding'. The correct comparison depends on language rules; you ought to use LanguageInfo::Compare to get correct results, but it is now implemented only for Czech language and even that is not a full implementation of rules...

(That said, there is some default implementation in int DefaultLanguageCompare that would probably work reasonably well for most Latin based languages).

Mirek

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