Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] Struggling to use iconv() for UTF-8 to UTF-32 - sample code?

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

David Bruce wrote:
> Can anyone point me to a working C example of the use of GNU iconv()
> to convert UTF-8 to UTF-32?  I haven't got it to work from studying
> the manual nor have I found an example with Google.

The sample code in libiconv/extras/iconv_string.[hc] should also work
fine with fromcode = "UTF-8" and tocode = "UTF-32".

However, not all systems' iconv supports "UTF-32" (GNU libiconv and
glibc's iconv support it, of course). If you're after portability, you
can also use the special-purpose conversion routine in the gnulib module
'unistr/u8-to-u32':
   http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/MODULES.html#module=unistr/u8-to-u32

Bruno