Re: [PATCH] Implement SSH commands in QEMU GA for Windows - Marc-André Lureau

From: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>
To: aidan_leuck@selinc.com
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, micheal.roth@amd.com, kkostiuk@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement SSH commands in QEMU GA for Windows
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 15:20:56 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ+F1CLWCpHSgzuXVaV6EBWRQKM42UaSiivCHjzJGkbW26UNLA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240319181724.212753-1-aidan_leuck@selinc.com>

Hi

On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 12:39 AM <aidan_leuck@selinc.com> wrote:
> +// Converts from a standard string to a Windows wide string.
> +// it is a 16-bit wide character used to store Unicode encoded as UTF-16LE/
> +// some Windows API functions require this format of the string as opposed to just
> +// the normal c char*. This function attempts to convert a standard string to
> +// a wide string if it is possible. Some multibyte characters are not supported
> +// so it could throw an error.
> +// Read more here:
> +// https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/char-wchar-t-char16-t-char32-t?view=msvc-170
> +// parameters:
> +// string - String to convert to a wchar.
> +// errp - Error pointer that will set errors if they are converted
> +// returns - The converted string or NULL if an error occurs.
> +static wchar_t *string_to_wide(const char *string, Error **errp)
> +{

There is g_utf8_to_utf16() which can be cast to wchar_t, iirc, that's
how glib converts string for w32 api


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Marc-André Lureau