Method convertUtf16ToUtf8

astyle/src/astyle_main.cpp:2639–2649

* WINDOWS function to convert wchar_t (utf16) strings to utf-8 strings. * Windows wchar_t is utf-16. * The calling function must check for errors and delete the * allocated memory. */

 * allocated memory.
 */
char* ASLibrary::convertUtf16ToUtf8(const wchar_t* wcharIn) const
{
	int utf8Len = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0, wcharIn, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0);
	if (utf8Len == 0)
		return NULL;
	char* utf8 = new(nothrow) char[utf8Len];
	if (utf8 == NULL)
		return NULL;
	WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0, wcharIn, -1, utf8, utf8Len, 0, 0);
	return utf8;
}

#else	// not _WIN32