Question

I have a file saved as UTF-8, and i’m reading it like this:

ReadFile(hFile, pContents, pFile->nFileSize, &dwRead, NULL);

(pContents is a BYTE* of size nFileSize)

its just a small file with 100 bytes or so, contains text which i want to read into memory in wchar_t* format, so i can set the text of edit and static controls with the unicode text.

How can i convert the bytes to UTF-8?

edit (i don’t want to use fstream or wfstream)

Answer 1

• MultiByteToWideChar to convert from UTF-8 to UTF-16 (wchar_t).
• WideCharToMuliByte to convert from UTF-16 to UTF-8.