std::wstring_convert::from_bytes(3)

NAME
std::wstring_convert::from_bytes - std::wstring_convert::from_bytes

Synopsis
   Defined in header <locale>
   wide_string from_bytes( char byte ); (1)
   wide_string from_bytes( const char* ptr ); (2)
   wide_string from_bytes( const byte_string& str ); (3)
   wide_string from_bytes( const char* first, const char* last); (4)
   Performs multibyte to wide conversion, using the codecvt facet supplied at
   construction.
   1) Converts byte as if it was a string of length 1 to wide_string
   2) Converts the null-terminated multibyte character sequence beginning at the
   character pointed to by ptr to wide_string
   3) Converts the narrow string str to wide_string.
   4) Converts the narrow multibyte character sequence [first, last) to wide_string
   In all cases, the conversion begins in initial shift state, unless non-initial
   starting state was provided to this wstring_convert constructor. The number of
   characters converted and the final value of the conversion state are remembered and
   can be accessed with state() and converted()

Return value
   A wide_string object containing the results of multibyte to wide conversion. If the
   conversion failed and there was a user-supplied wide-error string provided to the
   constructor of this wstring_convert, returns that wide-error string.

Exceptions
   If this wstring_convert object was constructed without a user-supplied wide-error
   string, throws std::range_error on conversion failure.

Example
// Run this code
 #include <iostream>
 #include <string>
 #include <locale>
 #include <codecvt>
 int main()
 {
     std::string utf8 = u8"z\u00df\u6c34\U0001d10b"; // or u8"zß水𝄋"
                        // or "\x7a\xc3\x9f\xe6\xb0\xb4\xf0\x9d\x84\x8b";
     // the UTF-8 / UTF-16 standard conversion facet
     std::u16string utf16 = std::wstring_convert<std::codecvt_utf8_utf16<char16_t>, char16_t>{}.from_bytes(utf8.data());
     std::cout << "UTF16 conversion produced " << utf16.size() << " code units:\n";
     for (char16_t c : utf16)
         std::cout << std::hex << std::showbase << c << '\n';
     // the UTF-8 / UTF-32 standard conversion facet
     std::u32string utf32 = std::wstring_convert<std::codecvt_utf8<char32_t>, char32_t>{}.from_bytes(utf8);
     std::cout << "UTF32 conversion produced " << std::dec << utf32.size() << " code units:\n";
     for (char32_t c : utf32)
         std::cout << std::hex << std::showbase << c << '\n';
 }

Output:
 UTF16 conversion produced 5 code units:
 0x7a
 0xdf
 0x6c34
 0xd834
 0xdd0b
 UTF32 conversion produced 4 code units:
 0x7a
 0xdf
 0x6c34
 0x1d10b

See also
   to_bytes converts a wide string into a byte string
             (public member function)
   mbsrtowcs converts a narrow multibyte character string to wide string, given state
             (function)
   do_in converts a string from externT to internT, such as when reading from file
   [virtual] (virtual protected member function of std::codecvt<InternT,ExternT,State>)