_wfopen equivalent under Mac OS X

Question

I\'m looking to the equivalent of Windows _wfopen() under Mac OS X. Any idea?

I need this in order to port a Windows library that uses wchar* for its File i

Answer 1

POSIX API in Mac OS X are usable with UTF-8 strings. In order to convert a wchar_t string to UTF-8, it is possible to use the CoreFoundation framework from Mac OS X.

Here is a class that will wrap an UTF-8 generated string from a wchar_t string.

class Utf8
{
public:
    Utf8(const wchar_t* wsz): m_utf8(NULL)
    {
        // OS X uses 32-bit wchar
        const int bytes = wcslen(wsz) * sizeof(wchar_t);
        // comp_bLittleEndian is in the lib I use in order to detect PowerPC/Intel
        CFStringEncoding encoding = comp_bLittleEndian ? kCFStringEncodingUTF32LE
                                                       : kCFStringEncodingUTF32BE;
        CFStringRef str = CFStringCreateWithBytesNoCopy(NULL, 
                                                       (const UInt8*)wsz, bytes, 
                                                        encoding, false, 
                                                        kCFAllocatorNull
                                                        );

        const int bytesUtf8 = CFStringGetMaximumSizeOfFileSystemRepresentation(str);
        m_utf8 = new char[bytesUtf8];
        CFStringGetFileSystemRepresentation(str, m_utf8, bytesUtf8);
        CFRelease(str);
    }   

    ~Utf8() 
    { 
        if( m_utf8 )
        {
            delete[] m_utf8;
        }
    }

public:
    operator const char*() const { return m_utf8; }

private:
    char* m_utf8;
};

Usage:

const wchar_t wsz = L"Here is some Unicode content: éà€œæ";
const Utf8 utf8 = wsz;
FILE* file = fopen(utf8, "r");

This will work for reading or writing files.