Question

When I call a tinyxml function that takes a char*, what unicode format do I need to pass it?

TiXmlText *element_text = new TiXmlText(string);

The reason is that I am using a wxString object and there is a lot of different encodings I can give it. If I just do string.c_str(), the wxstring object will query the encoding for the current locale and create a char* string in that format. Or if I do string.utf8_str(), it will pass a utf-8 string but it seems like tinyxml will not realize that it’s utf-8 encoded already and reencode the utf-8 string as utf-8 (yes, the result is double utf-8 encoding). So when I write out, if I set notepad++ to show utf-8, I see:

baÄŸlam instead of bağlam.

I’d like to do the encoding myself to utf_8 (string.utf8_str()) and not have tinyxml touch it and just write it out.

How do I do this? What format does tinyxml expect to be passed in the function parameter (constructor in the above code)? The answer from testing is not utf-8 though it eventually writes it out as utf-8 if that makes sense.

Answer 1

TinyXML only supports UTF-8 encoding. So if you want to provide characters outside of ASCII, you must provide them in UTF-8.