Re: simplest way to convert a char * to wchar *?

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byaarov@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi, what is the simplest way to convert a char * string to a wchat *
string?

There is no simple way. The reason is that the definition of e.g. char(150)
is not as well-defined as the definition of wchar_t(0x20ac). In order to
interpret char strings, you need to know the encoding they use, while for
wchar_t strings the encoding can be assumed as fixed on win32.

If you know that the char string uses only ASCII, you can use std::copy().
If the encoding is something else, you need to use MultibyteToWideChar()
with the according encoding.

Uli

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