How do I copy the content of a string to a char array?

[Kueishiong Tu]

How do I copy the content of a string in one encoding (in my case big5) to a
char array of the same encoding?

I try the following

String line[] = S"123æ°´æ³¥";
char buffer[200];

for(int i=0; i<line->get_length(); i++)
{
buffer[i] = (char) line->Chars[i];
}

It works fine for the first 3 Ascii characters, but gets messed up for the
next 2 Chinese characters. What is wrong here?

[choongseng]

Kueishiong Tu wrote:

How do I copy the content of a string in one encoding (in my case big5) to a
char array of the same encoding?

I try the following

String line[] = S"123æ°´æ³¥";
char buffer[200];

for(int i=0; i<line->get_length(); i++)
{
buffer[i] = (char) line->Chars[i];
}

It works fine for the first 3 Ascii characters, but gets messed up for the
next 2 Chinese characters. What is wrong here?

Try to use WChar instead of Char.

[Luc E. Mistiaen]

why not use the ToCharArray method like in

char buffer[] = line.ToCharArray() ;

/LM
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Kueishiong Tu wrote:

How do I copy the content of a string in one encoding (in my case big5)
to a char array of the same encoding?

I try the following String line[] = S"123??";
char buffer[200];

for(int i=0; i<line->get_length(); i++)
{
buffer[i] = (char) line->Chars[i];
}

It works fine for the first 3 Ascii characters, but gets messed up for
the next 2 Chinese characters. What is wrong here?

Try to use WChar instead of Char.

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Kueishiong Tu <Ku**********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

How do I copy the content of a string in one encoding (in my case big5) to a
char array of the same encoding?

I try the following

String line[] = S"123??";
char buffer[200];

for(int i=0; i<line->get_length(); i++)
{
buffer[i] = (char) line->Chars[i];
}

It works fine for the first 3 Ascii characters, but gets messed up for the
next 2 Chinese characters. What is wrong here?

Character arrays don't *have* separate encodings as such - characters
are *always* Unicode in .NET.

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/unicode.html for more
information.

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