Function WideStringToUtf8

source/test/gtest/src/gtest.cc:2038–2058

Converts a wide string to a narrow string in UTF-8 encoding. The wide string is assumed to have the following encoding: UTF-16 if sizeof(wchar_t) == 2 (on Windows, Cygwin) UTF-32 if sizeof(wchar_t) == 4 (on Linux) Parameter str points to a null-terminated wide string. Parameter num_chars may additionally limit the number of wchar_t characters processed. -1 is used when the entire string should be

// and contains invalid UTF-16 surrogate pairs, values in those pairs
// will be encoded as individual Unicode characters from Basic Normal Plane.
std::string WideStringToUtf8(const wchar_t* str, int num_chars) {
  if (num_chars == -1) num_chars = static_cast<int>(wcslen(str));

  ::std::stringstream stream;
  for (int i = 0; i < num_chars; ++i) {
    uint32_t unicode_code_point;

    if (str[i] == L'\0') {
      break;
    } else if (i + 1 < num_chars && IsUtf16SurrogatePair(str[i], str[i + 1])) {
      unicode_code_point =
          CreateCodePointFromUtf16SurrogatePair(str[i], str[i + 1]);
      i++;
    } else {
      unicode_code_point = static_cast<uint32_t>(str[i]);
    }

    stream << CodePointToUtf8(unicode_code_point);
  }
  return StringStreamToString(&stream);
}

// Converts a wide C string to an std::string using the UTF-8 encoding.
// NULL will be converted to "(null)".