mbtowc() - How do I convert it and how do I output the result to a wchar_t variable?

[VictorN]

Weird... It is returning as value 224 (e0 in Hex).

That translates to the character à which is certainly not ฐ...

You may want to try the code example from https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/st...ltibyte/mbtowc

[2kaud]

mbtowc() uses the specified number of bytes to convert.

Have you changed the size of output array?

What is the hex value of tester?
What are the 3 hex values in output?

What wchar_t value are you expecting?

tester is a 32-bit type, receiver is 16-bits. So obviously all values allowed in tester won't convert exactly to receiver.

[Arianax]

Referring BACK to my post where I simplified the code for you as an example (So you don't need to scroll around too much)...:

Here is the code I'm working from now:

char32_t tester = U'ฐ';

                    int returned = NULL;
                    std::mbstate_t state {};
                    char output[MB_LEN_MAX] {};

                    returned = c32rtomb(output, tester, &state);

                    printf("[c32rtomb()]: Character Returned is: %s \n\n", output);


                    wchar_t receiver;

                    mbtowc(NULL, NULL, 0); //Reset the function
                    
                    auto resultant = mbtowc(&receiver, output, MB_LEN_MAX);

If I do..:

wchar_t bufferGo[MB_CUR_MAX]; //Using a pointer to wchar_t array here instead of just a standard wchar_t variable...

auto resultant = mbtowc(bufferGo, output, length);


printf("Decimal Value Returned is: %u", output);
printf("Hex Value Returned is: %x", output);

printf("Decimal Value Returned is: %u \n", bufferGo);
printf("Hex Value Returned is: %x", bufferGo);

I get the values:

output is equal to 6683936
output hex is equal to 65fd20

bufferGo is equal to 6683920
bufferGo hex is equal to 65fd10

output is the result of c32rtomb().
bufferGo is the result of mbtowc().

The numbers are almost the same, but, of course, I don't get anything printed to the console when I wprintf() bufferGo...

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT:
Something funny is going on...

If I do:

printf("bufferGo box 0 contains: %x", bufferGo[0]);
printf("bufferGo box 1 contains: %x", bufferGo[1]);
printf("bufferGo box 2 contains: %x", bufferGo[2]);

I get the following:

bufferGo box 0 contains: e0
bufferGo box 1 contains: 6dcd
bufferGo box 2 contains: 7ff9

BUT when I do:

printf("Number of elements in 'bufferGo' is: %u \n", (sizeof(bufferGo) / sizeof(wchar_t)));

I get the following:
Number of elements in 'bufferGo' is: 1

ALSO, If I do:

wchar_t bufferGo[returned]; // instead of wchar_t bufferGo[MB_CUR_MAX);

Then I can output each element in bufferGo by using a for(int i=0; i < sizeof(bufferGo) / sizeof(wchar_t); i++){} loop...

BUT If I do the same thing using MB_CUR_MAX or even the number 3 for the definition of bufferGo then the loop only outputs ONE element, not THREE.

What is going on?



EDIT: Sorry @2kaud I'll provide the hex codes and info you requested if this post doesnt give you a good lead.

[2kaud]

The value of MB_CUR_MAX is the maximum number of bytes in a multibyte character for the current locale

We already know that your locale isn't set. So you shouldn't use that constant in your code as it has a value of 1. That's why using this only outputs 1 value and not three.