Re: [Boost-users] Fwd: Lexical cast between narrow and wide strings

On 7/06/2014 19:13, quoth gast128:

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/libs/locale/doc/html/charset_handling.h...

This seems from / to utf stuff. But there seems no ansi (i.e. 1 byte fixed length with the ascii set) to ucs-16 (fixed 2 byte) conversion. Both character encodings cannot cover all code points, but are very common on windows platforms due to historical reasons.

std::wstring wide_string = to_utf(latin1_string,"Latin1"); is a conversion to UTF-16 from "Latin1", which is the most common ANSI codepage (and there's discussion on there for using other codepages). What more were you after? (Yes, I know that UCS-2 and UTF-16 are not the same, but the differences are usually insignificant in practice. In particular modern Windows systems all support UTF-16.)