topic Re: CHANSI2Unicode doc in Archicad C++ API

CHANSI2Unicode doc

Tomasz Marek — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 13:25:28 GMT

Hi,

There are few mistakes in the documentation of CHANSI2Unicode.

    long CHANSI2Unicode (
      const char*  pChars,                    // string to convert
      long         nChars,                    // number of bytes in string
      wchar_t*     pWChars,                   // wide-char buffer
      long         maxWChars,                 // wide char buffer length
      GSCharCode   charCode = CC_Default        // Character codepage of input
      CHANIS2UnicodeCacheRef*  cache = NULL           // can be used to cache conversion result, if called twice
    );

First of all pWChars is not wchar_t* , but uchar_t* (unsigned short).

There is no way to get the example work as it is right now (R16.0).

GS::ANIS2UnicodeCacheRef cache = 0;

Should read GS::CHANSI2UnicodeCacheRef.
p variable type is not defined.

What is a proper way to convert a material name (const char*) to UTF8?
I cannot get CC_UTF8 it to work (x64 Win).

Thanks
Tomasz

Re: CHANSI2Unicode doc

Ralph Wessel — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:38:42 GMT

Tomasz wrote:
What is a proper way to convert a material name (const char*) to UTF8?
I cannot get CC_UTF8 it to work (x64 Win).

Try converting to Unicode first (CHANSI2Unicode) and then from Unicode to UTF8 (CHUnicode2ANSI).

Re: CHANSI2Unicode doc

Tomasz Marek — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:45:24 GMT

Ralph wrote:
Try converting to Unicode first (CHANSI2Unicode) and then from Unicode to UTF8 (CHUnicode2ANSI).

It did the trick.
I was wondering how they want to push char* into uchar_t*...

Thanks!