String conversion

[t...@raisedbar.net]

Hi,

 

I’m having to write a function in Objective-C, which I’m not really familiar with.

 

What is the best way to convert from NSMutableString* to wxString, please?

 

Very best wishes.

 

Tim

 

[Sean Tolstoyevski]

if possible third party libs for your environment, you can use simdutf for all string conversions. 

also c++ has conversion templates but deprecated. see: codectv . 

simdutf is robust lib. 

On 7 Jul 2026, at 18:11, t...@raisedbar.net wrote:



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[Lauri Nurmi]

From a quick glance, simdutf doesn't provide API that takes NSMutableString or wxString, so you'd still need to know how to convert from NSMutableString to something, and from something to wxString, right?

Also sounds pretty overkill to adopt a whole new library just to achieve something that could be a simple as:

wxString mywx = wxString::FromUTF8([myMutableStr UTF8String]);

Is it this simple, then? I didn't try, just made a guess by reading the docs.

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