Hello,
I am working on a cross‑platform application that uses libiconv to convert strings to/from Unicode. I need to modify the existing code for compatibility with macOS. However, the call to iconv() fails with an unclear errno value (92) when using "WCHAR_T":
std::wstring ConvertToWchar(const std::string& iconvCodeSet, const std::string_view str)
{
iconv_t conv = iconv_open("WCHAR_T//TRANSLIT", iconvCodeSet.c_str());
if (conv == (iconv_t)-1)
{
std::cerr << "iconv_open() failed" << std::endl;
return {};
}
std::wstring out(str.size(), L'\0');
auto inPtr = (char*)str.data();
size_t inSize = str.size();
auto outPtr = (char*)out.data();
size_t outSize = out.size() * sizeof(wchar_t);
if (iconv(conv, &inPtr, &inSize, &outPtr, &outSize) == (size_t)-1)
{
std::cerr << "iconv() failed. errno = " << errno << std::endl;
return {};
}
if (iconv(conv, nullptr, &inSize, &outPtr, &outSize) == (size_t)-1)
{
std::cerr << "iconv() failed. errno = " << errno << std::endl;
return {};
}
iconv_close(conv);
return out;
}
int main()
{
std::string str1((const char*)u8"ΟΔΥΣΣΕΥΣ");
std::wstring str2 = ConvertToWchar("UTF-8", str1);
if (str2.empty())
return 1;
std::cout << "converted" << std::endl;
return 0;
}
Using "UTF-32" works fine, but "WCHAR_T//TRANSLIT" fails.
What is the recommended way to convert wchar_t strings using libiconv?
Why does the conversion fail with "WCHAR_T//TRANSLIT"?
Thank you in advance!
