This method can be used to allocate the buffer with enough space for the
trailing @c NUL characters for any encoding.
*/
- const size_t GetMaxMBNulLen();
+ static size_t GetMaxMBNulLen();
/**
Convert multibyte string to a wide character one.
The number of character written (or which would have been written
if it were non-@NULL) to @a dst or @c wxCONV_FAILED on error.
*/
- virtual size_t ToWChar(wchar_t* dst, size_t dstLen,
- const char* src,
+ virtual size_t ToWChar(wchar_t* dst, size_t dstLen, const char* src,
size_t srcLen = wxNO_LEN) const;
/**
The number of character written (or which would have been written
if it were non-@NULL) to @a dst or @c wxCONV_FAILED on error.
*/
- virtual size_t FromWChar(char* dst, size_t dstLen,
- const wchar_t* src,
+ virtual size_t FromWChar(char* dst, size_t dstLen, const wchar_t* src,
size_t srcLen = wxNO_LEN) const;
/**
compatibility concerns).
*/
const wxWCharBuffer cMB2WC(const char* in,
- size_t inLen = wxNO_LEN,
- size_t *outLen = NULL) const;
+ size_t inLen,
+ size_t *outLen) const;
//@{
/**
FromWChar(), please see the description of cMB2WC() for more details.
*/
const wxCharBuffer cWC2MB(const wchar_t* in,
- size_t inLen = wxNO_LEN,
- size_t *outLen = NULL) const;
+ size_t inLen,
+ size_t *outLen) const;
//@{
/**
out buffer, the @a outLen parameter should be one more to allow to
properly @c NUL-terminate the string.
+ So to properly use this function you need to write:
+ @code
+ size_t lenConv = conv.MB2WC(NULL, in, 0);
+ if ( lenConv == wxCONV_FAILED )
+ ... handle error ...
+ // allocate 1 more character for the trailing NUL and also pass
+ // the size of the buffer to the function now
+ wchar_t *out = new wchar_t[lenConv + 1];
+ if ( conv.MB2WC(out, in, lenConv + 1) == wxCONV_FAILED )
+ ... handle error ...
+ @endcode
+ For this and other reasons, ToWChar() is strongly recommended as a
+ replacement.
+
@param out
The output buffer, may be @NULL if the caller is only
interested in the length of the resulting string
called with a non-@NULL buffer, the @a n parameter should be the size
of the buffer and so it should take into account the trailing @c NUL,
which might take two or four bytes for some encodings (UTF-16 and
- UTF-32) and not one.
+ UTF-32) and not one, i.e. GetMBNulLen().
*/
virtual size_t WC2MB(char* buf, const wchar_t* psz, size_t n) const;
};