Win32 comes with APIs for converting from UTF-16 (or perhaps something similar, in any case likely referred to as "UNICODE") to UTF-8 (likely called "mutli-byte-character strings"). Unfortunately, this is the wrong computer with too tiny a browser to easily look up the name.

I prefer to do such conversions in Perl anyway, as it reduces the complexity of the XS code (almost always a good idea) and allows one to avoid converting twice if you end up just passing the output from one API into another.

If one really wants to do this conversion in C, then I'd strongly encourage providing an XS routine that does just this conversion and then provide a Perl sub to conveniently wrap the 2 (or more) XS calls for the "common case".

- tye        

In reply to Re^3: import UTF-16 strings in XS (Win32) by tye
in thread import UTF-16 strings in XS by Anonymous Monk

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