UNICODE conversion problem, please help..

[Themuppeteer]

Hello,

I have a C# client that gets a string from a textfield.
This client calls a webservice with as argument the string.
(The webservice is written in C++ with gsoap ..)

When the webservice is called, it prints the stringlength of the recieved string on the screen.
Now when I call my service with a ONE japanese character as argument, the stringlength of the string the webservice recieves is 1. It should be 2 right (because a unicode character is 16 bit)? Apperantly the client cuts of the unicode chars at 8 bits.

Now what I want to do to solve this is convert my string with unicode to another string (twice as long) with the unicode chars split up.

Who can help me ? Who can give me functions/ideas/tips ??

thanks a lot.

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[chiph]

.NET stores strings internally as UTF-16, which like you said, occupy two bytes. But the Length parameter of the string returns the length in characters, not bytes, so that explains why you were only seeing a "1" for that value.

To covert to a single-byte representation (or, as close as you reasonably can), use the Encoding class to convert your string to UTF-8.

Chip H.