Unable to decode file written by C++ wostringstream

[Ulrich Eckhardt]

Yan Cheng CHEOK wrote:
> Currently, I have the following text file
>
(https://sites.google.com/site/yanchengcheok/Home/TEST.TXT?attredirects=0&d=1)
> written by C++ wostringstream.

Stringstream? I guess you meant wofstream, or? Anyway, the output encoding
of C++ iostreams is implementation-defined, so you can't assume that such
code is generally portable. If you want a certain encoding, you need to
tell the ofstream using the codecvt facet of the locale, a websearch should
turn up more info on that.

If you have the data in memory and it is encoded as UTF-16 there (which is
what MS Windows uses for its wchar_t) then you could also use a plain
ofstream, open it with the binary flag and then simply write the memory to
a file.

In any case, you need to know the encoding in order to get the content into
a Python string or unicode object, otherwise you will only get garbage.

Good luck!

Uli

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