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Reliably converting between std::vector<uint8_t> and WString [message #55560]

Sun, 22 November 2020 00:17

steveo
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Registered: November 2020

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I have a desire to use some encryption libraries which are not WString aware.

How do I reliably take the raw buffer of a WString and convert it to a std::vector<uint8_t>?

and conversely.

How do I reliably take a buffer thus converted and reliably put it back into a WString?

It's been years since I did pointer arithmetic and back in the day we simply ignored WString because we could.

WString input = "Some unicode text";
std::vector<uint8_t> bytes(const uint8_t*)input.Begin(), input.GetCount()*sizeof(wchar));
WString output((const wchar*)bytes.data(), (bytes.size()/sizeof(wchar));

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