Converting “normal” std::string to utf-8

Question

Let\'s see if I can explain this without too many factual errors...

I\'m writing a string class and I want it to use utf-8 (stored in a std::string) as it\'

Answer 1

If your "normal string" is encoded using the system's code page and you want to convert it to UTF-8 then this should work:

std::string codepage_str;
int size = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, MB_COMPOSITE, codepage_str.c_str(),
                               codepage_str.length(), nullptr, 0);
std::wstring utf16_str(size, '\0');
MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, MB_COMPOSITE, codepage_str.c_str(),
                    codepage_str.length(), &utf16_str[0], size);

int utf8_size = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0, utf16_str.c_str(),
                                    utf16_str.length(), nullptr, 0,
                                    nullptr, nullptr);
std::string utf8_str(utf8_size, '\0');
WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0, utf16_str.c_str(),
                    utf16_str.length(), &utf8_str[0], utf8_size,
                    nullptr, nullptr);