I'm having a bit of trouble with handling unicode conversions.
The following code outputs this into my text file. HELLO??O
std::string test = "HELLO";
std::string output;
int len = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_OEMCP, 0, (LPCWSTR)test.c_str(), -1, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL);
char *buf = new char[len];
int len2 = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_OEMCP, 0, (LPCWSTR)test.c_str(), -1, buf, len, NULL, NULL);
output = buf;
std::wofstream outfile5("C:\\temp\\log11.txt");
outfile5 << test.c_str();
outfile5 << output.c_str();
outfile5.close();
But as you can see, output is just a unicode conversion from the test variable. How is this possible?
Check if the LEN is correct after first measuring call. In general, you should not cast test.c_str() to LPCWSTR. The 'test' as is 'char'-string not 'wchar_t'-wstring. You may cast it to LPCSTR - note the 'W' missing. The WinAPI has distinction between that. You really should be using wstring if you want to keep widechars in it.. Yeah, after re-reading your code, the test should be a wstring, then you can cast it to LPCWSTR safely.