[Shapelib] Re: [Gdal-dev] Shapelib and UNICODE

[Daniel Morissette]

> David Garcia wrote:
> 
>> Frank,
>>
>> I will try to convert the strings to UNICODE using a (still looking 
>> for it) conversion function from the Windows Run Time.
>>
>> In any case, do you have any clue on how to convert it to a UNICODE 
>> string readable by Windows?
> 

You'd have to know the original encoding I think.

Anyway, maybe libiconv (http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/) could 
help? I don't know much about it, just that it allows you to convert 
between character encodings and works on Windows as well as Unix/Linux.

I've also done some work with Windows functions from mbctype.h but that 
was several years ago and I don't remember how that worked at all. You 
may find some interesting hints in avc_mbyte.c in the AVCE00 library at 
http://avce00.maptools.org/avce00/index.html

Good Luck!

Daniel
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