Re: char * to unicode/UTF string

[Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Simmons wrote on 2004-05-18 23:46 UTC:
> I wish that where true. I was using regualer char strings in JNI code for 
> a JVM and it expects unicode strings. The JVM was braffing because of 
> this.

"Unicode string" is not a meaningful description of how text is encoded
as a sequence of bytes. I presume you mean something like UTF-16LE or
UTF-16BE?

Quick introduction to what Unicode encodings there are:

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#ucsutf

Markus

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