I have an application that needs to translate a string from charsets
utf-8 to latin 1 (iso 8859-1).

According to the documentation of iconv.h, input variables to the
iconv()-function are

1) iconv_t,
2) char **,
3) size_t *,
4) char **,
5) size_t *


Arguments 1,2 and 4 are pretty obvious to me, but what should number 3
and 5 be, exactly? What kind of value does size_t hold?


Regards,
P   l R   nning

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"P   l R   nning" <paal@imaker.no> wrote in message news:d05d79b0.0305082249.3f167d3b@posting.google.com...
> I have an application that needs to translate a string from charsets
> utf-8 to latin 1 (iso 8859-1).
>
iconv isn't a standard C++ function.  It's from UNIX.
Try reading the documentation:
http://www.opennc.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/iconv.html

They are pointers to the counts for the input and output buffers (in bytes).
They take the number of bytes to convert (*inbytesleft) and the size of
the availble output buffer (*outbytslef) when you call iconv.   It sets the
values to what actually got converted (both on input and output) when
the routine returns.


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