#include <locale.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <uchar.h>
mbstate_t state;
int main(void)
{
setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.utf8");
const char in[] = u8"zß水🍌"; const size_t in_sz = sizeof in / sizeof *in;
printf("Processing %zu UTF-8 code units: [ ", in_sz);
for (size_t n = 0; n < in_sz; ++n)
printf("%#x ", (unsigned char)in[n]);
puts("]");
char16_t out[in_sz];
const char *p_in = in, *end = in + in_sz;
char16_t *p_out = out;
for (size_t rc; (rc = mbrtoc16(p_out, p_in, end - p_in, &state));)
{
if (rc == (size_t)-1) break;
else if(rc == (size_t)-2) break;
else if(rc == (size_t)-3) p_out += 1;
else
{
p_in += rc;
p_out += 1;
};
}
const size_t out_sz = p_out - out + 1;
printf("into %zu UTF-16 code units: [ ", out_sz);
for (size_t x = 0; x < out_sz; ++x)
printf("%#x ", out[x]);
puts("]");
}