[Win32utils-devel] Wide strings and LPCTSTR types

[win32utils-devel at rubyforge.org]

Hi,
> 
> All,
> 
> I was experimenting with converting LPCTSTR strings to wide strings with
> something like this:
> 
> // Converts a Ruby string to a LPWSTR
> LPCTSTR AllocWideLString(VALUE rbString){
>    char* str = STR2CSTR(rbString);
>    int length = (strlen(str)+1) * sizeof(WCHAR);
>    LPCTSTR lpStr = (LPCTSTR)malloc(length);
>    
>    MultiByteToWideChar(
> 	CP_ACP,
>       0,
>       str,
>       strlen(str)+1,
>       (LPWSTR)lpStr,
>       length
>    );
>    
>    return lpStr;
> }
> 
> But, that didn't seem to work very well in testing.  Is there a better
> way?  Otherwise, I'll have to stick to casting for now.
> 
> Also, I noticed that there's a IsTextUnicode() function.  Should I be
> employing that somehow?

Do You still have trouble with MultiByteToWideChar?

Maybe MultiByteToWideChar hates you :)

Would you try mbstowcs like following?

    nLen = strlen(szText) + 1;
    wszBuffer = malloc(nLen) * sizeof(WCHAR);
    mbstowcs(wszBuffer, szText, nLen);


Regards,

Park Heesob



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