Re: Converting a 16-bit string to 8-bit?

[Adelle Hartley]

On 4/03/2011 03:12, Sam Carleton wrote:
I am looking at using a 3rd party library that only operates on 16-bit
strings.  Is there a built in functions to convert the strings back to
8-bit?  I am currenly on Windows and Windows has built in functions I could
use, I would prefer to use Apache functions if they exist.

This is a helper class I wrote for the module I'm working on.  It 
assumes the native wide encoding is UTF-32.  To make it cross platform, 
you'd have to check what the correct wide encoding is.

This is my first apache module, so any corrections welcome.

class our_response_t
{
protected:
        request_rec* m;
        apr_xlate_t* m_convset;
        char m_bufferBytes[CHARSET_CONVERSION_BUFFER_SIZE];
public:
	our_response_t(request_rec* request) : m(request), m_convset(NULL), 
m_html(NULL), m_json(NULL)
        {
                apr_pool_t* pool = m->pool;
                apr_status_t status = apr_xlate_open(&m_convset, "UTF-8", 
"UTF-32", pool);

                if (m_convset)
                {
                        ap_set_content_type(m, "text/html;charset=UTF-8");
                }
        }

        ~our_response_t()
        {
                if (m_convset)
                {
                        apr_xlate_close(m_convset);
                }
        }

        void append_chars(const wchar_t* str, size_t num_chars)
        {
                apr_size_t inbytes_left = num_chars*sizeof(wchar_t);
                apr_size_t outbytes_left = CHARSET_CONVERSION_BUFFER_SIZE-1;
		apr_status_t status = apr_xlate_conv_buffer(m_convset, (const 
char*)str, &inbytes_left, m_bufferBytes, &outbytes_left);
                m_bufferBytes[CHARSET_CONVERSION_BUFFER_SIZE-outbytes_left-1] = 
0;
                ap_rputs(m_bufferBytes, m);
        }

};