Re: std::wstring to glib::ustring conversion

[Fabrício Godoy <skarllot gmail com>]

Nice, but this only works if GLIBMM_HAVE_WIDE_STREAM is defined.

PS: My Gtkmm Windows installation don't have this defined.

2009/4/28 Daniel Elstner <daniel kitta googlemail com>

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 28.04.2009, 08:31 -0300 schrieb Fabrício Godoy:

> I don't think that Glib::convert can convert (or convert well)
> wstrings.
> My sugestion:
>
> // #include <glib.h>
> std::wstring mywstr(L"any text");
> gchar* pt_ustr = g_utf16_to_utf8((gunichar2*)mywstr.c_str(), -1, NULL,
> NULL, NULL);
> Glib::ustring myustr(pt_ustr);
> g_free(pt_ustr);

How about this:

   std::wstring wstr = L"foo";
   Glib::ustring ustr = Glib::ustring::format(wstr);

:-D

I know, I know, it's not exactly obvious.  But nonetheless a nice side
effect of the fact that ustring::format() is based on wide streams.  And
yes, you can rely on this on any platform that supports wide streams at
all.

--Daniel