C++ iterate or split UTF-8 string into array of symbols?

Question

Searching for a platform- and 3rd-party-library- independent way of iterating UTF-8 string or splitting it into array of UTF-8 symbols.

Please post a code snippet.

Answer 1

Solved using tiny platform-independent UTF8 CPP library:

    char* str = (char*)text.c_str();    // utf-8 string
    char* str_i = str;                  // string iterator
    char* end = str+strlen(str)+1;      // end iterator

    do
    {
        uint32_t code = utf8::next(str_i, end); // get 32 bit code of a utf-8 symbol
        if (code == 0)
            continue;

        unsigned char[5] symbol = {0};
        utf8::append(code, symbol); // copy code to symbol

        // ... do something with symbol
    }
    while ( str_i < end );