The Chilkat C++ static libs for VC6, 7, and 8 are Unicode capable, although it may not seem like it. The methods have arguments of "const char *", but not "wchar_t *". So how can Unicode be supported?
It’s easy: Each Chilkat class has a Utf8 property. You’ll find this in each Chilkat class’s definition:
bool get_Utf8(void) const;
void put_Utf8(bool b);
By default, the Utf8 property is false, which indicates that all "const char *" arguments are interpreted as ANSI character strings. If however the Utf8 property is set to true, then "const char *" arguments are interpreted as utf-8. (Utf-8 is the multibyte encoding of Unicode.)
The CkString class can be used to convert to/from utf-8, ANSI, wchar_t *, or other character encodings. Here are some examples:
https://www.example-code.com/cpp/string.asp
