MultiByte to UTF8 Conversion Functions

["Dave Steck" <DSTECK@novell.com>]

While the Wide Char to UTF8 functions are our first priority, we'd like OpenLDAP to consider these functions as well.

ldap_mb_to_utf8 ( char *utf8char, const char *mbchar, size_t count,  mbtowc )
ldap_mbs_to_utf8s ( char *utf8str, const char *mbstr, size_t count, mbstowcs )
ldap_utf8_to_mb ( char *mbchar, const char *utf8char, size_t count, wctomb )
ldap_utf8s_to_mbs ( char *mbstr, const char *utf8str, size_t count, wcstombs )

I like Kurt's idea of the application sending in the charset translation function.  The last parameter is the translation function, which is compatible with the ANSI C functions.  It most cases, applications can just use the ANSI C functions.  (Perhaps NULL could cause these to be used by default.)

These APIs will give applications a simple way to be working in the local code page, and to properly convert strings to UTF8 for LDAP calls.


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