What is the equivalent of mb_convert_encoding in GCC?

Asked Sep 19 '13 at 18:33

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Currently I do the following in PHP to convert from UTF-8 to ASCII, but with the UTF-8 characters as HTML encoded. For instance, the German ß character would be converted to ß.

$sData = mb_convert_encoding($sData, 'HTML-ENTITIES','UTF-8');

In GCC C++ on Linux, what is the equivalent way to do this?

Actually, I can also take an alternative form like, instead of ß, the &#xNNN; format will do.

edited Sep 19 '13 at 18:44

asked Sep 19 '13 at 18:33

Volomike

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There's no such standard function in C++. You'll need some library that speaks HTML. – Kerrek SB Sep 19 '13 at 18:36
@Volomike: Deleted that comment. – Amal Murali Sep 19 '13 at 18:37
@KerrekSB Perhaps someone knows of a class or function that's shared on the web for this. A hyperlink to that would help me. – Volomike Sep 19 '13 at 18:37
Do you actually need `ß` or will `NNN;` do? – Mats Petersson Sep 19 '13 at 18:40
@MatsPetersson `NNN;` will do. I'll revise my post. – Volomike Sep 19 '13 at 18:43
So, the code I wrote here may help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18534494/convert-from-utf-8-to-unicode-c (the function `utf8_to_unicode` converts a set of bytes to an `int` value). – Mats Petersson Sep 19 '13 at 18:46

What is the equivalent of mb_convert_encoding in GCC?

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