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My software is getting some strings in UTF8 than I need to convert to ISO 8859 1. I know that UTF8 domain is bigger than iso 8859. But the data in UTF8 has been previously upconverted from ISO, so I should not miss anything. I would like to know if there is an easy / direct way to convert from UTF8 to iso-8859-1. Thanks Nominal Animal Here is a function you might find useful: utf8_to_latin9() . It converts to ISO-8859-15 (including EURO, which ISO-8859-1 does not have), but also works correctly for the UTF-8 -> ISO-8859-1 conversion part of a ISO-8859-1 -> UTF-8 -> ISO-8859-1 round-trip. The

For embedded applications, it is often necessary to access fixed memory locations for peripheral registers. The standard way I have found to do this is something like the following: // access register 'foo_reg', which is located at address 0x100 #define foo_reg *(int *)0x100 foo_reg = 1; // write to foo_reg int x = foo_reg; // read from foo_reg I understand how that works, but what I don't understand is how the space for foo_reg is allocated (i.e. what keeps the linker from putting another variable at 0x100?). Can the space be reserved at the C level, or does there have to be a linker option

If I code this std::map<int, char> example = { (1, 'a'), (2, 'b'), (3, 'c') }; then g++ says to me deducing from brace-enclosed initializer list requires #include <initializer_list> in C++98 ‘example’ must be initialized by constructor, not by ‘{...}’ and that annoys me slightly because the constructor is run-time and can, theoretically fail. Sure, if it does, it will fail quickly and ought to do so consistently, so that I ought to quickly locate & correct the problem. But, still, I am curious - is there anyway to initialize map, vector, etc, at compile time? Edit: I should have said that I am

I am working on an embedded systems project and have run into an issue of the compiler being programatically embedded in the Paradigm C++ IDE. I would like to be able to automate building. The processor is the AMD186ES. I am not working with the OS - just baremetal stuff. I need to generate real-mode 16-bit 8086 machine code from C++. My googling indicates that G++ can build such code. My questions are: Can g++ be configured to build this machine code? Are there other C++ compilers that can do it as well? Hawken I am currently using gnu as (part of binutils and the assembler used for gcc) and