fputws(Buf,FileStream) doesn't work

[TheMillionDollarMan]

Hi,

I am using this function to print some japanese chars to a text file. It doesn't work however.
I am using
Windows 2000
VC6.0

The problem is that in the watch window I see the contents of buf and it looks fine. However when I open the text file fputws has printed everything before the Japanese chars and nothing after it.

Any ideas?

Thanks

wchar_t * buf = WSZALLOC(count);
size_t j = 0;
for (size_t i = 0; i < count; i++)
if (s != ZERO_WIDTH_SPACE)
buf[j++] = s;

buf[j] = L'\0';
fputws (buf, f);

 

[xwb]

Have you checked the return value from fputws? i.e.

int result = fputws(buf,f);

result will be non-negative if successful. If there is an error, it returns WEOF.

 

[TheMillionDollarMan]

Yes I did. result returns say 3 when there is a whole line that should be about 137 chars long. ie I should see 137 and not 3.

Hmm. The output is garbage. Indicating to me that it can't find the right font however when I use the
AfxMessageBox(mychararray);
the message comes up with perfect japanese.
instead of
wEgýVµPÿt^
6
from the file

 

[TheMillionDollarMan]

Solution:

char *mbcs_buf = (char*)malloc(count*2);
wcstombs( mbcs_buf, buf, count*2 );
fputs (mbcs_buf, f);
free(mbcs_buf);

fputs() is suppoed to convert your wchar_t from Unicode to MBCS but it doesn't....

So we did it manually and then sent it to the
fouts() function.

Peace out.