[Win32utils-devel] Wide strings and LPCTSTR types

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> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 5:07 PM
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> Subject: Re:[Win32utils-devel] Wide strings and LPCTSTR types
<snip>
> Would you try mbstowcs like following?
> 
>     nLen = strlen(szText) + 1;
>     wszBuffer = malloc(nLen) * sizeof(WCHAR);
>     mbstowcs(wszBuffer, szText, nLen);

I tried this:

LPCTSTR AllocWideLPCString(VALUE rbString){
   char* szText = STR2CSTR(rbString);
   int nLen = (strlen(szText) + 1) * sizeof(LPCTSTR);
   LPCTSTR wszBuffer = (LPCTSTR)malloc(nLen);
   mbstowcs(wszBuffer, szText, nLen);
   return wszBuffer;
}

It still didn't work.

Dan