[pdal] Non-English characters

[pidgeon13 at googlemail.com]

I have included another piece of code, which is what I tried first using WideCharToMultiByte. Should this perform the conversion correctly?

Regards,

Stephen

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From: Mateusz Loskot
Sent: 17 January 2018 10:09
To: pidgeon13 at googlemail.com
Cc: Andrew Bell; pdal at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [pdal] Non-English characters

See what the docs [1] say about the A in CW2A.

Meanwhile, you need to use WideCharToMultiByte [2] with CP_UTF8 code page.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/87zae4a3.aspx
[2] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd374130.aspx


On 17 January 2018 at 11:02,  <pidgeon13 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> std::string sFilePath = CW2A(filepath, CP_UTF8);
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> From: Mateusz Loskot
> Sent: 17 January 2018 10:00
> To: pidgeon13 at googlemail.com
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> On 17 January 2018 at 10:31,  <pidgeon13 at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> The user browses for a file in a dialog file browser, and I convert this
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> How do you convert to UTF-8?
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> Please, you need to show some code (one image for 1000 words).
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> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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