Is there a way to convert from UTF8 to ISO-8859-1?

Question

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

Answer 1

iconv - perform character set conversion

size_t iconv(iconv_t cd, char **inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft, char **outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);

iconv_t iconv_open(const char *tocode, const char *fromcode);

tocode is "ISO_8859-1" and fromcode is "UTF-8".

Working example:

#include 
#include 

int main (void) {
    iconv_t cd = iconv_open("ISO_8859-1", "UTF-8");
    if (cd == (iconv_t) -1) {
        perror("iconv_open failed!");
        return 1;
    }

    char input[] = "Test äöü";
    char *in_buf = &input[0];
    size_t in_left = sizeof(input) - 1;

    char output[32];
    char *out_buf = &output[0];
    size_t out_left = sizeof(output) - 1;

    do {
        if (iconv(cd, &in_buf, &in_left, &out_buf, &out_left) == (size_t) -1) {
            perror("iconv failed!");
            return 1;
        }
    } while (in_left > 0 && out_left > 0);
    *out_buf = 0;

    iconv_close(cd);

    printf("%s -> %s\n", input, output);
    return 0;
}