Thread: char to unicode string and back

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    char to unicode string and back

    Hello,
    I'm trying to translate my DOS data to unicode but in understanding C++ strings I am not too far so I need help. I get message "string is not declared" so I think that here misses some header too.
    I started as shown but any suggestion will be appreciated. Speed is first criteria.

    Scenario:
    I read chars as binary (from file) then loop through them to replace certain characters with unicode ones. After every character I compose new stringTO with new values. At the end I should got unicode string stringTO in memory.
    Of course, my example dont work (but it is close

    Code:
                string stringTO = ' ';
                int o;
                for(o=0;myInputString[o] !='\0';o++)
                   {
                    int a=myInputString[o];
                    charTO=a
    
                      if (a==172){charTO = 'Č';}
                      if (a==143){charTO = 'Ć';}
                      if (a==230){charTO = 'Š';}
                      if (a==209){charTO = 'Đ';}
                      if (a==166){charTO = 'Ž';}
                      if (a==159){charTO = 'č';}
                      if (a==134){charTO = 'ć';}
                      if (a==231){charTO = 'š';}
                      if (a==208){charTO = 'đ';}
                      if (a==167){charTO = 'ž';}
    
                   stringTO = stringTO + charTO
                   }
    
             fprintf (fo, "%s\n", stringTO);
             }
    Can this go at shown way?

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    You should use std::string as it is in std namespace. You can define charTO as wchar_t. To access string chars individually you may need to use string.c_str(). You can use documentation to know more about string.
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    Thank you siavoshkc for exploring me a huge possibilityes of C++ language regarding my issue.
    But actually, I better like simplest way of helping.
    Some usable code snippet based on my parameters or so...

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