Re: [Libusb-devel] HIDAPI and wchar_t strings

[Xiaofan C. <xia...@gm...>]

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Alan Ott <al...@si...> wrote:
> Libusb reports strings as UTF-16. I thought you wanted UTF-8. It should
> be easy enough to get UTF-16 on every platform, but in that case, the
> hidraw version would have to convert to UTF-16 from UTF-8 (and a user of
> that implementation could say, "just give me the UTF-8 so that it
> doesn't have to be converted twice"). Of course, it's hard to argue
> against supporting UTF-16, since it's the USB native encoding.
>
>> hidapi transforms the strings from char* to wchar_t* and I will have
>> to do the reverse conversion in my code to have char* again. It looks
>> stupid.
>>
>>
>
> What type of application is it where you need to have UTF-8 as a char*
> (that won't accept wchar_t)? I'm mostly asking for my own curiosity
> about what people are using HIDAPI for.
>

Just wondering if a convenience function would help, similar to libusb-1.0's
libusb_get_string_descriptor_ascii() or other string related functions.
http://libusb.sourceforge.net/api-1.0/group__desc.html

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Xiaofan