topic Doesn't the parameter of Table::GetDefinition need to be std::wstring? in File Geodatabase API Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/file-geodatabase-api-questions/doesn-t-the-parameter-of-table-getdefinition-need/m-p/455769#M768 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The definition XML document is UTF-8:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code">&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;DataElement xmlns:esri="http://www.esri.com/schemas/ArcGIS/10.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xsi:type="esri:DEFeatureClass"&gt; ...</PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV><BR /><SPAN>When the definition contains Japanese strings, these characters are garbled.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:26:02 GMT SatoruGUNJI 2011-02-15T08:26:02Z Doesn't the parameter of Table::GetDefinition need to be std::wstring? https://community.esri.com/t5/file-geodatabase-api-questions/doesn-t-the-parameter-of-table-getdefinition-need/m-p/455769#M768 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The definition XML document is UTF-8:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code">&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;DataElement xmlns:esri="http://www.esri.com/schemas/ArcGIS/10.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xsi:type="esri:DEFeatureClass"&gt; ...</PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV><BR /><SPAN>When the definition contains Japanese strings, these characters are garbled.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:26:02 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/file-geodatabase-api-questions/doesn-t-the-parameter-of-table-getdefinition-need/m-p/455769#M768 SatoruGUNJI 2011-02-15T08:26:02Z Re: Doesn't the parameter of Table::GetDefinition need to be std::wstring? https://community.esri.com/t5/file-geodatabase-api-questions/doesn-t-the-parameter-of-table-getdefinition-need/m-p/455770#M769 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Can you send me example containing Japanese strings.</SPAN><BR /><A href="mailto:lshipman@esri.com">lshipman@esri.com</A></BODY></HTML> Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:31:24 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/file-geodatabase-api-questions/doesn-t-the-parameter-of-table-getdefinition-need/m-p/455770#M769 LanceShipman 2011-02-18T18:31:24Z Re: Doesn't the parameter of Table::GetDefinition need to be std::wstring? https://community.esri.com/t5/file-geodatabase-api-questions/doesn-t-the-parameter-of-table-getdefinition-need/m-p/455771#M770 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>All XML data in the File Geodatabase API is in the form of a UTF-8 encoded string, therefore using std::wstring is not appropriate.&nbsp; UTF-8 is a variable length Unicode character encoding, but wstring is a wide character, or UTF-16, Unicode character encoding.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Unfortunately, C++ does not have built in support for UTF-8 encoded strings.&nbsp; Because of this, if you need to read or print a UTF-8 encoded string, you must first convert it to another character encoding, such as wchar_t (also known as UTF-16).&nbsp; The Windows run time library provides a function for this purpose: MultiByteToWideChar.&nbsp; Be sure to pass �??CP_UTF8�?� as the value of the first parameter.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:32:56 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/file-geodatabase-api-questions/doesn-t-the-parameter-of-table-getdefinition-need/m-p/455771#M770 LanceShipman 2011-02-22T17:32:56Z Re: Doesn't the parameter of Table::GetDefinition need to be std::wstring? https://community.esri.com/t5/file-geodatabase-api-questions/doesn-t-the-parameter-of-table-getdefinition-need/m-p/455772#M771 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thank you very much for advice.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I will test MultiByteToWideChar.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:09:19 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/file-geodatabase-api-questions/doesn-t-the-parameter-of-table-getdefinition-need/m-p/455772#M771 SatoruGUNJI 2011-02-25T01:09:19Z Re: Doesn't the parameter of Table::GetDefinition need to be std::wstring? https://community.esri.com/t5/file-geodatabase-api-questions/doesn-t-the-parameter-of-table-getdefinition-need/m-p/455773#M772 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>MultiByteToWideChar works fine.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I will control these XML in program. Does Esri have the suggested XML parser and samples?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:10:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/file-geodatabase-api-questions/doesn-t-the-parameter-of-table-getdefinition-need/m-p/455773#M772 SatoruGUNJI 2011-03-02T00:10:57Z Re: Doesn't the parameter of Table::GetDefinition need to be std::wstring? https://community.esri.com/t5/file-geodatabase-api-questions/doesn-t-the-parameter-of-table-getdefinition-need/m-p/455774#M773 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>We are using libXml. Use whatever you find convenient.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:25:21 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/file-geodatabase-api-questions/doesn-t-the-parameter-of-table-getdefinition-need/m-p/455774#M773 LanceShipman 2011-03-02T19:25:21Z Re: Doesn't the parameter of Table::GetDefinition need to be std::wstring? https://community.esri.com/t5/file-geodatabase-api-questions/doesn-t-the-parameter-of-table-getdefinition-need/m-p/455775#M774 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thank you for information.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I am using the Xerces. This can get the Geodatabase XML properties.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:29:39 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/file-geodatabase-api-questions/doesn-t-the-parameter-of-table-getdefinition-need/m-p/455775#M774 SatoruGUNJI 2011-03-09T07:29:39Z