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Here is a description of how you can use STLport to read/write utf8 files.
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utf8 is a way of encoding wide characters. As so, management of encoding in
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the C++ Standard library is handle by the codecvt locale facet which is part
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of the ctype category. However utf8 only describe how encoding must be
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performed, it cannot be used to classify characters so it is not enough info
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to know how to generate the whole ctype category facets of a locale
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instance.
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In C++ it means that the following code will throw an exception to
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signal that creation failed:
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#include <locale>
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// Will throw a std::runtime_error exception.
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std::locale loc(".utf8");
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For the same reason building a locale with the ctype facets based on
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UTF8 is also wrong:
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// Will throw a std::runtime_error exception:
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std::locale loc(locale::classic(), ".utf8", std::locale::ctype);
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The only solution to get a locale instance that will handle utf8 encoding
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is to specifically signal that the codecvt facet should be based on utf8
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encoding:
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// Will succeed if there is necessary platform support.
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locale loc(locale::classic(), new codecvt_byname<wchar_t, char, mbstate_t>(".utf8"));
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Once you have obtain a locale instance you can inject it in a file stream to
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read/write utf8 files:
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std::fstream fstr("file.utf8");
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fstr.imbue(loc);
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You can also access the facet directly to perform utf8 encoding/decoding operations:
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typedef std::codecvt<wchar_t, char, mbstate_t> codecvt_t;
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const codecvt_t& encoding = use_facet<codecvt_t>(loc);
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Notes:
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1. The dot ('.') is mandatory in front of utf8. This is a POSIX convention, locale
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names have the following format:
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language[_country[.encoding]]
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Ex: 'fr_FR'
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'french'
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'ru_RU.koi8r'
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2. utf8 encoding is only supported for the moment under Windows. The less common
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utf7 encoding is also supported.
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