The C++ standard library type std::wofstream is a specialized std::wostream which uses a std::wfilebuf to write wide chars or wide strings to a file.
This is C++ std file output stream for data which has wide characters.
Questions tagged [wofstream]
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How to portably write std::wstring to file?
I have a wstring declared as such:
// random wstring
std::wstring str = L"abcàdëefŸg€hhhhhhhµa";
The literal would be UTF-8 encoded, because my source file is.
[EDIT: According to Mark Ransom this is not necessarily the case, the compiler will…
user1481860
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Why does wide file-stream in C++ narrow written data by default?
Honestly, I just don't get the following design decision in C++ Standard library. When writing wide characters to a file, the wofstream converts wchar_t into char characters:
#include
#include
int main()
{
using namespace…
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Outputting 'wchar_t*' to an 'ofstream'
I want to output a text to a file via two pointers that I have declared:
wchar_t *Col1="dsffsd", *Col2="sdfsf";
Here is what I have tried:
std::ofstream fout;
fout.open(NativeDatabasePathHist);
fout<<"testing";
fout<<" "<
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Wrote to a file using std::wofstream. The file remained empty
I wrote the following program using VS2008:
#include
int main()
{
std::wofstream fout("myfile");
fout << L"Հայաստան Россия Österreich Ελλάδα भारत" << std::endl;
}
When I tried to compile it the IDE asked me whether I wanted to…
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Windows Unicode C++ Stream Output Failure
I am currently writing an application which requires me to call GetWindowText on arbitrary windows and store that data to a file for later processing. Long story short, I noticed that my tool was failing on Battlefield 3, and I narrowed the problem…
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How to write a non-English string to a file and read from that file with C++?
I want to write a std::wstring onto a file and need to read that content as std:wstring. This is happening as expected when the string as L"". But the problem is happening when we have character like Bengali, Kannada, Japanese…
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Boost C++ cross-platform (Windows & Mac) serialization of std::wstring
I am implementing serialization using Boost C++ libraries in a program that is built for Windows (using Visual Studio 2008) and Mac (using GCC). The program uses wide strings (std::wstring) in about 30 of its classes. Depending on the platform,…
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C++ unicode questions
I'm aware of ICU and small libraries like the utf8 one on code project (forget the exact name) however none of these are exactly what I want.
What I really want is something like ICU but wrapped up in a more friendly manner.
Specifically:
Fully…
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Unable to write a std::wstring into wofstream
I'm using Qt/C++ on a Linux system. I need to convert a QLineEdit's text to std::wstring and write it into a std::wofstream. It works correctly for ascii strings, but when I enter any other character (Arabic or Uzbek) there is nothing written in the…
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outputing multibyte string in C++
I have a problem with multibyte char strings. I have simplified my problem as below:
std::wstring str = L"multıbyte test string";
std::wofstream f;
f.open("F:\\dump.txt");
f << str;
f.close();
and the dump file's content is : "mult"
Why does it…
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std::wostream_iterator
Why there are no std::wostream_iterator in C++?
Is there any good reason for this?
#include
#include
#include
#include
int main()
{
std::vector myvec = { L"first", L"second" };
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How to read a UCS-2 file?
I'm writing a program to get the infomation in *.rc file encoding in UCS-2 Little Endian.
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) {
wstring csvLine(wstring sLine);
wifstream fin("en.rc");
wofstream fout("table.csv");
wofstream…
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wostream fails to output wstring
I am using Visual Studio C++ 2008 (Express). When I run the below code, the wostream (both std::wcout, and std::wfstream) stops outputting at the first non-ASCII character (in this case Chinese) encountered. Plain ASCII characters print fine.…
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writing unicode characters/string to file
I'm trying to write unicode characters to file with std::wofstream but the put or write function doesn't write any characters.
Sample code:
#include
#include
int main()
{
std::wofstream file;
file.open("output.txt",…
user11157650
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How to write a wstring line contains different language to a file?
I got seperated parts from 22 files in different languages and made them a wstring line like:
wstring wstr_line = L"\"IDS_TOAST_ECOON\",\"eco Mode is turned On.\",\"ecoモードをオンにしました。\",\"Režim eco je zapnutý.\",\"Økoindstillingen er aktiveret\"..."
I…
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