Re: c++ convert wchar_t to UTF-8 for DB

On 8/7/2013 8:49 AM, ciifrancesco(at)tiscali(dot)it wrote:
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4BF575E6.5060203@hogranch.com
> I am in the situation described in the message.

except linux isn't windows, and you're probably not using GBK encoding
for your database, so ... what exactly is the 'same' about your situation?

> I have a char* in C++ and i want to put in my db, but most of the non
> ASCII charachers are broken.
> So i used wchar_t, but the following function doesn't exist:

this char *, what encoding are these nonascii characters in? what
client_encoding is your database connection using?

wchar is 16 bits per character, which isn't even remotely the same as
char* (8 bits per char), you can't just cast a pointer to one to a
pointer to the other, that would be like mixing integer and char.

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