Convert ISO-8859-1 strings to UTF-8 in C/C++

Question

You would think this would be readily available, but I\'m having a hard time finding a simple library function that will convert a C or C++ string from ISO-8859-1 coding to

Answer 1

You can use the boost::locale library:

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_49_0/libs/locale/doc/html/charset_handling.html

The code would look like this:

#include 
std::string utf8_string = to_utf(latin1_string,"Latin1");