unicode string to C string?

[Bint]

Hello, is Unicode part of C/C++? I have some unicode data, and I need to
get some kind of ASCii C string from it. Is that possible?

Thanks
B

[Bint]

thanks!

[cr88192]

"Bint" <bi**@csgs.comwrote in message
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Hello, is Unicode part of C/C++? I have some unicode data, and I need to
get some kind of ASCii C string from it. Is that possible?

I may also mention, that depending on ones' needs, UTF-8 may be worth
looking into.

reason:
UTF-8, for plain ASCII characters, is exactly the same as the ASCII version;
it can also preserve the unicode range, by encoding non-ASCII characters as
multiple bytes, and so, very often, we can work with UTF-8 data in much the
same way as with plain ASCII.

also, unlike Unicode (in particular, UTF-16), in most cases we can utilize
ASCII and UTF-8 strings interchangably.
the main cost, however, is that in most common compilers, char is signed by
default (causing there to be negative char values, or us having to cast to
'unsigned char' in cases where we actually care), but this is a pretty minor
issue most of the time.
just my opinion mostly...

Thanks
B

[Sherman Pendley]

"Bint" <bi**@csgs.comwrites:

Hello, is Unicode part of C/C++? I have some unicode data, and I need to
get some kind of ASCii C string from it. Is that possible?

A very popular Unicode libary is IBM's ICU:

<http://www.icu-project.org/>

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