ANSI to UTF-8

[C++ Programming]

Hi there,

I found a code snippet on the web which converts an ANSI string to UTF-8 format. I implemented it in my own and it works.


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// to UTF-8
char text[1024]={0};
WCHAR w[1024]={0};
int erg=0;

strcpy(text, m_pData);

erg=MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, text, -1, w, sizeof(w) / sizeof(WCHAR)); // ANSI to UNICODE
erg=WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0, w, -1, text, sizeof(text), 0, 0); // UNICODE to UTF-8
//
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After that 'text' is UTF-8 formatted just nicely.

Now I was wondering, why doesn´t the following (slightly altered) code not work? I just created a char* instead of char[];


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// to UTF-8
char* text = new char[1024];
WCHAR w[1024]={0};
int erg=0;

strcpy(text, m_pData);

erg=MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, text, -1, w, sizeof(w) / sizeof(WCHAR)); // ANSI to UNICODE
erg=WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0, w, -1, text, sizeof(text), 0, 0); // UNICODE to UTF-8
//
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Thanks,

Souldrift