Read special characters from file

Asked Dec 08 '14 at 19:05

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For a few day I am trying to solve an ecoding issue in my C++ code. I have the following content of a txt file (saved utf-8): "quÃ©bÃ©cois". (and I have only read rights over the file). I am reading it with ReadFile function in a std::string variable.

The first surpize is that the strContnet is not "quÃ©bÃ©cois", but "ï»¿quÃƒÂ©bÃƒÂ©cois". (double encoded ??) Why?
How cand I read it's content in a std::string variable in order to obtaint "québécois" (utf8 to ansi?)

Until now I have two ways to get somewere close to what I want but none satisfie me enought. 1. Convert from: std::string to std::wstring (using MultiByteToWideChar) create a CString from the wstring use CT2CA to obtaint a new std::string and finally use agin MultiByteToWideChar for a final std::wstring containint "québécois"

I thing the method is unsafe and not verry smart and I have a wstring not string.

I found this article: How to convert from UTF-8 to ANSI using standard c++ And if I use utf8_to_string function twice I obtain what I want, but still I am not sure if it's the wright way.

Can anybody help me with a solution for this issue?

edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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asked Dec 08 '14 at 19:05

Jacob Connor

it appears double-encoded because you don't read it using utf-8 – njzk2 Dec 08 '14 at 19:10
How can I read using utf8? – Jacob Connor Dec 08 '14 at 19:21
something like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20195262/how-to-read-an-utf-8-encoded-file-containing-chinese-characters-and-output-them – njzk2 Dec 08 '14 at 19:43

Read special characters from file

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