How do I obtain a code point integer from a 1 to 4 byte UTF-8 encoded sequence in Windows?

Question

Hello,

I am Patrick Niedzielski, a programmer for the Free Software 3D adventure game Humm and Strumm. I'm working on a minimal Unicode character class in C++. I currently have an array of four bytes representing a UTF-8 sequence.

On GNU/Linux, I can just convert to UTF-32 with iconv(), but on Windows, I cannot do this. Is it possible to convert the array to a single code point?

Thanks, Patrick

Answer 1

I recently posted C/C++ code for decoding a UTF-8 sequence to UTF-32:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2948308/how-do-i-read-utf-8-characters-via-a-pointer/2953960#2953960

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2969843/validate-unicode-string-and-escape-if-unicode-is-invalid-c-c/2977559#2977559