Reading Unicode Values from INI file

[krishnakumartm]

Hi, I hanve a ini file with the UNICODE entries like chinese characters, i need to read the values and write it back to ini file. How can i read and write the unicode strings from and to INi file. Thanks in advance

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[krishnakumartm]

I tried withe GetPrivateProfileStringW, which is not reading properly.

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[norish]

Is the ini file mixed with ANSI and UNICODE? Then, if UNICODE means UTF-8, it may be solved by MultiByteToWideChar and WideCharToMultiByte, I think. When UNICODE means UTF-16, I dont have any good idea, sorry. If the ini file is all UTF-16 encoding with BOM, GetPrivateProfileStringW and WritePrivateProfileStringW could not help you?

[krishnakumartm]

Yes the Ini file is the mixture of ANSI and UNICODE. The file format is also in the UTF-8. How the MultiByteWideChar will help, is this is th way? 1.Use GetPrivatePrfileString. 2.Convert the buffer using WideCharToMultiByte.

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[norish]

char szUtf8[LINE_SIZE];
int n = GetPrivatePrivateStringA("section", "key", "", szUtf8, LINE_SIZE, "inifile.ini");
DWORD flags = 0; // some conversion option here
int n2 = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, flags, szUtf8, -1, NULL, 0);
// ...allocate buffer
MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, flags, szUtf8, -1, pUtf16, n2);

Above code can work? (I did not check this with real code yet) Good luck :)