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FTCHARToUTF8

These should be replaced with StringCasts when FPlatformString starts to know about UTF-8.

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Type

typedef TStringConversion< FTCHARToUTF8_Convert > FTCHARToUTF8

References

Module	Core
Header	/Engine/Source/Runtime/Core/Public/Containers/StringConv.h
Include	#include "Containers/StringConv.h"

Remarks

The objects these macros declare have very short lifetimes. They are meant to be used as parameters to functions. You cannot assign a variable to the contents of the converted string as the object will go out of scope and the string released.

The parameter you pass in MUST be a proper string, as the parameter is typecast to a pointer. If you pass in a char, not char* it will compile and then crash at runtime. Usage: SomeApi(TCHAR_TO_ANSI(SomeUnicodeString));

const char* SomePointer = TCHAR_TO_ANSI(SomeUnicodeString); <--- Bad!!!

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