Wcstombs – String Conversion

[jstapley]

I’m trying to convert a USC-2 (UTF16) to UTF8 using the built in method Wcstombs

Example

temp = “”
temp = “Test”.Wcstombs()
Print(temp)

Result is an Exception

..\gcstring.cpp:224: assertion failure: cc->left.size() + cc->right.size() == -n

Any ideas?

[amckinlay]

I’m not sure why Wcstombs() is causing problems (I got an access violation when I tried your example). I assume it’s because the input is “bad”.

Your example is backwards – Suneido uses 8 bit character strings, so “Test” is (more or less) UTF-8 (= multi byte string = mbs).

s = “Test”.Mbstowcs()
=> “T\x00e\x00s\x00t\x00\x00\x00”

s.Wcstombs()
=> “Test”

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