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widestring-rs
Rust

A wide string Rust library for converting to and from wide-character strings, including UTF-16 and UTF-32 encoding.

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widestring

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A wide string Rust library for converting to and from wide strings, such as those often used in Windows API or other FFI libaries. Both u16 and u32 string types are provided, including support for UTF-16 and UTF-32, malformed encoding, C-style strings, etc.

Macros for converting string literals to UTF-16 and UTF-32 strings at compile time are also included.

Requires Rust 1.58 or greater. If you need support for older versions of Rust, use 0.x versions of this crate.

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Optional Features

  • alloc - Enabled by default. Enable use of the alloc
crate when not using the std library.

This enables the owned string types and aliases.

  • std - Enabled by default. Enable features that depend on the Rust std library, including
everything in the alloc feature.
  • debuggervisualizer Add debugger visualizer data for crate types. Requires Rust 1.71 or
newer_

License

All files in this library are dual-licensed and distributed under the terms of either of:

(https://opensource.org/license/mit) (https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)

at your option.

Contributing

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

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