Hi guys,
it feels like my problem is rather trivial but I can’t find an answer to it. It’s boils down to smth. very simple: I have an FString (e.g. serialized JSON object) which I would like to send over the network. Now, most of the internet protocols (and counterparties) expect their data in UTF-8 and UE4 uses UTF-16 (USC2) for internal string representation. So I tried following:
FString EchoStr = TEXT("\"EncodingTest\":\"ABCDabcdÜÄÖßАБВГДабвгд\"");
FTCHARToUTF8 EchoStrUtf8(*EchoStr);
int32 DestLen = EchoStrUtf8.Length();
int SentLen = libwebsocket_write(Wsi, (unsigned char*)(TCHAR_TO_UTF8(*EchoStr)), DestLen, LWS_WRITE_TEXT);
The test string contains some german umlauts and some cyrillic characters. Now what I receive at the other end (simple websockets server) is this:
"EncodingTest":"ABCDabcdÜÄÖß??????????"
Strangely enough umlauts made it but cyrillic characters didn’t.
My question is - is this even the way to do it? How does one convert an FString to UTF-8 and extracts the byte[] and it’s length? And if it is the way - why are some characters broken?
Thank you