std::codecvt_mode - cppreference.com (original) (raw)

| | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | ------------------------------------------------------ | | enum codecvt_mode { consume_header = 4, generate_header = 2, little_endian = 1 }; | | (since C++11) (deprecated in C++17) (removed in C++26) |

The facets std::codecvt_utf8, std::codecvt_utf16, and std::codecvt_utf8_utf16 accept an optional value of type std::codecvt_mode as a template argument, which specifies optional features of the unicode string conversion.

[edit] Constants

Enumerator Meaning
little_endian assume the input is in little-endian byte order (applies to UTF-16 input only, the default is big-endian)
consume_header consume the byte order mark, if present at the start of input sequence, and (in case of UTF-16), rely on the byte order it specifies for decoding the rest of the input
generate_header output the byte order mark at the start of the output sequence

The recognized byte order marks are:

0xfe 0xff UTF-16 big-endian
0xff 0xfe UTF-16 little-endian
0xef 0xbb 0xbf UTF-8 (no effect on endianness)

If std::consume_header is not selected when reading a file beginning with byte order mark, the Unicode character U+FEFF (Zero width non-breaking space) will be read as the first character of the string content.

[edit] Example

The following example demonstrates consuming the UTF-8 BOM:

Output:

[edit] See also

| | converts between character encodings, including UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 (class template) [edit] | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | (C++11)(deprecated in C++17)(removed in C++26) | converts between UTF-8 and UCS-2/UCS-4 (class template) [edit] | | (C++11)(deprecated in C++17)(removed in C++26) | converts between UTF-16 and UCS-2/UCS-4 (class template) [edit] | | (C++11)(deprecated in C++17)(removed in C++26) | converts between UTF-8 and UTF-16 (class template) [edit] |