Syntax

   #include <nunicode.h> 
    
   N_EXTERN_LIBRARY(nint) NWUSUnicodeToBytePath ( 
      pnuint8                byteOutput,  
      nuint                  outputBufferLen,  
      const unicode N_FAR   *unicodeInput,  
      pnuint                 actualLength);
   

Pascal Syntax

   uses netwin32 
    
   Function NWUSUnicodeToBytePath 
     (byteOutput : nuint8;
     outputBufferLen : nuint;
     unicodeInput : const unicode;
     actualLength : pnuint              
   ): nint;
   

Parameters

byteOutput

(OUT) Points to the output buffer to receive the resulting byte string (optional).

outputBufferLen

(IN) Specifies the maximum size of the output buffer in bytes.

unicodeInput

(IN) Points to the input buffer containing the Unicode string to be converted.

actualLength

(OUT) Points to the returned length (in bytes) of the converted string (optional). Does not include the NULL terminator.

Return Values

Remarks

Call NWUSUnicodeToBytePath whenever the Unicode string to be converted is a file path.

The NWU_BUFFER_FULL error can occur because the output buffer has been allocated with insufficient space. Because of the default conversion behavior described above, byte strings can be as much as six times longer than the number of characters in the input string (or three times longer than the number of bytes in the input string).

Regardless of the language being converted, NWUSUnicodeToBytePath interprets Unicode yen (00A5), won (20A9), backslash (005C), and the Novell defined path separator (F8F7) all as path separators and converts each to the byte backslash character (5C).

NWUSUnicodeToBytePath converts an unmappable Unicode character into a special 6-byte sequence. For example, 0x2620 is converted to "[2620]".

NWUSUnicodeToBytePath does not recognize any special Unicode sequences for conversion. For example, the Unicode string "ab[81]cd" will be returned as the byte string "ab[81]cd".

Call NWUSUnicodeToBytePath to determine the size of the string before it is converted by setting the byteOutput parameter to NULL. The outputBufferLen parameter will be ignored, a converted string will not be returned, and the length of the string if it were converted will be returned in the actualLength parameter.

See esunibp.c for sample code.

See Also

NWUSUnicodeToByte