UNICODE / multi-byte character sets

[abilger]

Are multi-byte character sets such as UNICODE (ISO_IR 192) supported?

The documentation for function

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OFBool DicomDirInterface::isCharsetValid(const char * charset)

in document http://support.dcmtk.org/docs/classDico ... rface.html suggests that only single-byte character sets are supported.

Thanks for any hint.

[Marco Eichelberg]

In our project we have never had a need to support multi-byte characters, which means that this kind of functionality is totally untested in DCMTK. It may or may not work. In the case of Unicode (UTF8), however, I would expect things to work since UTF8 never introduced null bytes in the middle of a character string.

[rinuraj4u]

So can we simply use mbstowcs() to convert it to specific character set ?
Or do we need to do anything else (for e.g.: for showing Japanese patient name in Japanese character). Please advice

In our project we have never had a need to support multi-byte characters, which means that this kind of functionality is totally untested in DCMTK. It may or may not work. In the case of Unicode (UTF8), however, I would expect things to work since UTF8 never introduced null bytes in the middle of a character string.

[Jörg Riesmeier]

You should read about character sets in part 5 of the DICOM standard ...