We may lift this restriction for interface APIs in a future version, or alternatively provide conversion APIs. 34 2 Environment-specific notes 2.3.6.1 Getting started The following sections describe aware of a string’s encoding and ownership. Internally, XPCOM uses UTF-16 encoded strings. A set of conversion functions is pro- vided to convert other encodings to and from UTF-16. The type of a UTF-16 character func- tions take pointers to that type. Prototypes for the following conversion functions are declared in VBoxCAPI_v2_5.h. Conversion of UTF-16 to and from UTF-8 int (*pfnUtf16ToUtf8)(const PRUnichar *pwszString

We may lift this restriction for interface APIs in a future version, or alternatively provide conversion APIs. 34 2 Environment-specific notes 2.3.6.1 Getting started The following sections describe aware of a string’s encoding and ownership. Internally, XPCOM uses UTF-16 encoded strings. A set of conversion functions is pro- vided to convert other encodings to and from UTF-16. The type of a UTF-16 character func- tions take pointers to that type. Prototypes for the following conversion functions are declared in VBoxCAPI_v2_5.h. Conversion of UTF-16 to and from UTF-8 int (*pfnUtf16ToUtf8)(const PRUnichar *pwszString

We may lift this restriction for interface APIs in a future version, or alternatively provide conversion APIs. 33 2 Environment-specific notes 2.3.6.1 Getting started The following sections describe aware of a string’s encoding and ownership. Internally, XPCOM uses UTF-16 encoded strings. A set of conversion functions is pro- vided to convert other encodings to and from UTF-16. The type of a UTF-16 character func- tions take pointers to that type. Prototypes for the following conversion functions are declared in VBoxCAPI_v2_5.h. Conversion of UTF-16 to and from UTF-8 int (*pfnUtf16ToUtf8)(const PRUnichar *pwszString

We may lift this restriction for interface APIs in a future version, or alternatively provide conversion APIs. 35 2 Environment-specific notes 2.3.6.1 Getting started The following sections describe aware of a string’s encoding and ownership. Internally, XPCOM uses UTF-16 encoded strings. A set of conversion functions is pro- vided to convert other encodings to and from UTF-16. The type of a UTF-16 character func- tions take pointers to that type. Prototypes for the following conversion functions are declared in VBoxCAPI_v2_5.h. Conversion of UTF-16 to and from UTF-8 int (*pfnUtf16ToUtf8)(const PRUnichar *pwszString

We may lift this restriction for interface APIs in a future version, or alternatively provide conversion APIs. 35 2 Environment-specific notes 2.3.6.1 Getting started The following sections describe aware of a string’s encoding and ownership. Internally, XPCOM uses UTF-16 encoded strings. A set of conversion functions is pro- vided to convert other encodings to and from UTF-16. The type of a UTF-16 character func- tions take pointers to that type. Prototypes for the following conversion functions are declared in VBoxCAPI_v4_3.h. Conversion of UTF-16 to and from UTF-8 int (*pfnUtf16ToUtf8)(const PRUnichar *pwszString

We may lift this restriction for interface APIs in a future version, or alternatively provide conversion APIs. 33 5 The VirtualBox COM/XPCOM API For Linux, a sample program is provided which demonstrates aware of a string’s encoding and ownership. Internally, XPCOM uses UTF-16 encoded strings. A set of conversion functions is pro- vided to convert other encodings to and from UTF-16. The type of a UTF-16 character tions take pointers to that type. Prototypes for the following conversion functions are declared in VBoxCAPI_v2_5.h. 5.6.5.1 Conversion of UTF-16 to and from UTF-8 int (*pfnUtf16ToUtf8)(const PRUnichar

We may lift this restriction for interface APIs in a future version, or alternatively provide conversion APIs. 33 5 The VirtualBox COM/XPCOM API For Linux, a sample program is provided which demonstrates aware of a string’s encoding and ownership. Internally, XPCOM uses UTF-16 encoded strings. A set of conversion functions is pro- vided to convert other encodings to and from UTF-16. The type of a UTF-16 character tions take pointers to that type. Prototypes for the following conversion functions are declared in VBoxCAPI_v2_5.h. 5.6.5.1 Conversion of UTF-16 to and from UTF-8 int (*pfnUtf16ToUtf8)(const PRUnichar

We may lift this restriction for interface APIs in a future version, or alternatively provide conversion APIs. 37 2 Environment-specific notes 2.3.6.1 Getting started The following sections describe aware of a string’s encoding and ownership. Internally, XPCOM uses UTF-16 encoded strings. A set of conversion functions is pro- vided to convert other encodings to and from UTF-16. The type of a UTF-16 character func- tions take pointers to that type. Prototypes for the following conversion functions are declared in VBoxCAPI_v4_3.h. Conversion of UTF-16 to and from UTF-8 int (*pfnUtf16ToUtf8)(const PRUnichar *pwszString

We may lift this restriction for interface APIs in a future version, or alternatively provide conversion APIs. 41 2 Environment-specific notes m = m & " " & m.Name Next See bindings/mscom/vb/sample/vboxinfo of a string’s encoding and ownership. Internally, the API uses UTF-16 encoded strings. A set of conversion functions is provided to convert other encodings to and from UTF-16. The type of a UTF-16 character program. program: program.o VBoxCAPICGlue.o VirtualBox_i.o $(CC) -o $@ $^ -ldl -lpthread 2.3.6.10 Conversion of code using legacy C binding This section aims to make the task of converting code using the

We may lift this restriction for interface APIs in a future version, or alternatively provide conversion APIs. 41 2 Environment-specific notes 2.3.6.2 Getting started The following sections describe of a string’s encoding and ownership. Internally, the API uses UTF-16 encoded strings. A set of conversion functions is provided to convert other encodings to and from UTF-16. The type of a UTF-16 character program. program: program.o VBoxCAPICGlue.o VirtualBox_i.o $(CC) -o $@ $^ -ldl -lpthread 2.3.6.10 Conversion of code using legacy C binding This section aims to make the task of converting code using the