How to convert string from one charset to another in C++?

Question

How to convert string from one charset to another in C++ in a portable way? For example I want to convert to wstring to UTF-8 character array or . How to do this?

I am asking some standard way no chilkatsoft, wxWidgets, Qt. Its a plain C++ application. Though some simple class or methods will do the job.

Answer 1

I suppose this library may help you: http://www.chilkatsoft.com/charset-library.asp

Answer 2

The common repetoire for character sets is Unicode. Hence, you'd want a Unicode-oriented library. Frameworks like Qt and wxWidgets offer some of this functionality; ICU is more specific to Unicode text processing.

Answer 3

The Boost Serialization library contains a UTF-8 codecvt facet.

Answer 4

You can use libiconv (Google it ), it supports many encodings.