gri3-wm/i3-input/ucs2_to_utf8.c

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/*
* vim:ts=8:expandtab
*
* i3 - an improved dynamic tiling window manager
*
* © 2009 Michael Stapelberg and contributors
*
* See file LICENSE for license information.
*
*/
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <err.h>
#include <iconv.h>
static iconv_t conversion_descriptor = 0;
/*
* Returns the input string, but converted from UCS-2 to UTF-8. Memory will be
* allocated, thus the caller has to free the output.
*
*/
char *convert_ucs_to_utf8(char *input) {
size_t input_size = 2;
/* UTF-8 may consume up to 4 byte */
int buffer_size = 8;
char *buffer = calloc(buffer_size, 1);
if (buffer == NULL)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "malloc() failed\n");
size_t output_size = buffer_size;
/* We need to use an additional pointer, because iconv() modifies it */
char *output = buffer;
/* We convert the input into UCS-2 big endian */
if (conversion_descriptor == 0) {
conversion_descriptor = iconv_open("UTF-8", "UCS-2BE");
if (conversion_descriptor == 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "error opening the conversion context\n");
exit(1);
}
}
/* Get the conversion descriptor back to original state */
iconv(conversion_descriptor, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
/* Convert our text */
int rc = iconv(conversion_descriptor, (void*)&input, &input_size, &output, &output_size);
if (rc == (size_t)-1) {
perror("Converting to UCS-2 failed");
return NULL;
}
return buffer;
}