• Simon Buchan (22/22) Dec 06 2004 How is this function supposed to be used?
• =?UTF-8?B?QW5kZXJzIEYgQmrDtnJrbHVuZA==?= (9/28) Dec 07 2004 You can't cast char[] to wchar[], only with string literals!
• Simon Buchan (20/47) Dec 09 2004 Duh! I should have seen that! (slaps forehead) Thanks for helping us
• Roberto Mariottini (23/24) Dec 09 2004 import std.stdio;

"Simon Buchan" <currently no.where> writes:

How is this function supposed to be used?
I can only get something like:
┼┼__>_______┼___>___┼┼__>_______________┼___>___┼┼______________┼___________4___
___4_____________┼┼┼┼____________________________┼┼┼┼┼_________________________┼
┼┼┼┼___5____________5___________┼┼┼┼_______________________5____┼┼┼┼┼___________

with

wchar[] temp = cast(wchar[])<Function returning char[]>;
temp ~= 0;
string temp2;
temp2.length = temp.length;
CharToOemW(temp.ptr, temp2.ptr);
printf(temp2.ptr);

I had to define
extern(Windows) BOOL CharToOemW(wchar*, LPSTR);

is this correct? (OK, it SHOULD be LPCTSTR, not wchar*, but they're
all void* to the function)

I would really like to be able to see semi-UTF'ish strings on my cruddy
Windows console.

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=?UTF-8?B?QW5kZXJzIEYgQmrDtnJrbHVuZA==?= <afb algonet.se> writes:

Simon Buchan wrote:

 wchar[] temp = cast(wchar[])<Function returning char[]>;

You can't cast char[] to wchar[], only with string literals!

With dynamic strings, you *need* to use std.utf.toUTF16()...


This program:
 import std.stdio;
 import std.utf;
 
 void main()
 {
   char[] s = "hello!";

   wchar[] a = cast(wchar[]) "hello!";
   wchar[] b = cast(wchar[]) s;
   wchar[] c = toUTF16(s);
 
   writefln(a);
   writefln(b);
   writefln(c);
 }

Prints something like: (i.e. with a modern UTF-8 console)
 hello!
 桥汬漡
 hello!

And if your char[] has an odd number of bytes, it fails:
 Error: array cast misalignment

--anders


PS. Hope that middle line isn't offensive to anyone...
     Maybe it means "Go Stick Your Head in a Pig!" ? :)

"Simon Buchan" <currently no.where> writes:

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 11:02:31 +0100, Anders F Björklund <afb algonet.se>  
wrote:

 Simon Buchan wrote:

 wchar[] temp = cast(wchar[])<Function returning char[]>;

 You can't cast char[] to wchar[], only with string literals!

 With dynamic strings, you *need* to use std.utf.toUTF16()...


 This program:
 import std.stdio;
 import std.utf;
  void main()
 {
   char[] s = "hello!";

   wchar[] a = cast(wchar[]) "hello!";
   wchar[] b = cast(wchar[]) s;
   wchar[] c = toUTF16(s);
    writefln(a);
   writefln(b);
   writefln(c);
 }

 Prints something like: (i.e. with a modern UTF-8 console)
 hello!
 桥汬漡
 hello!

 And if your char[] has an odd number of bytes, it fails:
 Error: array cast misalignment

 --anders


 PS. Hope that middle line isn't offensive to anyone...
      Maybe it means "Go Stick Your Head in a Pig!" ? :)

Duh! I should have seen that! (slaps forehead) Thanks for helping us  
morons :D
Is there any way to convert UTF-8 to a codepage? (other than that, of  
course)
I suppose you could find a UTF to ASCII converter and use CharToOemA...

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Roberto Mariottini <Roberto_member pathlink.com> writes:

In article <opsimkvtlujccy7t simon.mshome.net>, Simon Buchan says...
How is this function supposed to be used?

import std.stdio;
import std.c.stdio;
import std.c.windows.windows;
 
extern (Windows)
{
  export BOOL CharToOemW(
    LPCWSTR lpszSrc,  // string to translate
    LPSTR lpszDst     // translated string
  );
}
 
int main()
{
   wchar[] mess = "äöüßÄÖÜ";
   char[] OEMmess = new char[mess.length];
   CharToOemW(mess, OEMmess);
   puts(OEMmess);
 
   return 0;
}

Ciao