From: James Turner <zakalawe@mac.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:38:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Part of fixing bug 1055.
X-Git-Url: https://git.mxchange.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b703102d9b3981d18ccdec9cc3a936408824a202;p=simgear.git

Part of fixing bug 1055.

Add machinery to convert hateful legacy Windows encodings to UTF-8.
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diff --git a/simgear/misc/strutils.cxx b/simgear/misc/strutils.cxx
index 8c4accf6..c6687158 100644
--- a/simgear/misc/strutils.cxx
+++ b/simgear/misc/strutils.cxx
@@ -300,6 +300,40 @@ namespace simgear {
       return rslt;
     }
 
+
+#ifdef SG_WINDOWS
+    #include <windows.h>
+#endif
+        
+std::string convertWindowsLocal8BitToUtf8(const std::string& a)
+{
+#ifdef SG_WINDOWS
+    DWORD flags = 0;
+    std::vector<wchar_t> wideString;
+
+    // call to query transform size
+    int requiredWideChars = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, flags, a.c_str(), a.size(),
+                        NULL, 0);
+    // allocate storage and call for real
+    wideString.resize(requiredWideChars);
+    MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, flags, a.c_str(), a.size(),
+                        wideString.data(), wideString.size());
+    
+    // now convert back down to UTF-8
+    std::vector<char> result;
+    int requiredUTF8Chars = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, flags,
+                                                wideString.data(), wideString.size(),
+                                                NULL, 0, NULL, NULL);
+    result.resize(requiredUTF8Chars);
+    WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, flags,
+                        wideString.data(), wideString.size(),
+                        result.data(), result.size(), NULL, NULL);
+    return std::string(result.data(), result.size());
+#else
+    return a;
+#endif
+}
+
     } // end namespace strutils
     
 } // end namespace simgear
diff --git a/simgear/misc/strutils.hxx b/simgear/misc/strutils.hxx
index f5362073..c9aa525c 100644
--- a/simgear/misc/strutils.hxx
+++ b/simgear/misc/strutils.hxx
@@ -149,6 +149,12 @@ namespace simgear {
      */
     std::string uppercase(const std::string &s);
 
+	/**
+     * convert a string in the local Windows 8-bit encoding to UTF-8
+     * (no-op on other platforms)
+     */
+    std::string convertWindowsLocal8BitToUtf8(const std::string& a);
+
   } // end namespace strutils
 } // end namespace simgear