C++: how to convert ASCII or ANSI to UTF8 and stores in std::string

Question

My company use some code like this:

    std::string(CT2CA(some_CString)).c_str()

which I believe it converts a Unicode string (whose type is CS

Answer 1

Becareful : it's '|' and not '&' !

*buffer++ = 0xC0 | (c >> 6);
*buffer++ = 0x80 | (c & 0x3F);