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From: Erich <john@peppermind.com>
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Subject: Convert wide_string to string (as the same byte array)
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Date: 2012-02-24T14:01:54-08:00
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A newbie question: I need to convert a wide_string to a (platform/
endian independent) string that represents all the bytes of the
wide_string. How do you do that?

Just to make this clear, I'm not looking for a lossy conversion based
on mapping wide_characters to characters, but for a lossless
conversion.

The reason is that I have an older package that takes a key as string
and need to use it with wide_strings as keys.