This version, using the Windows API function MultiByteToWideChar()
, handles the memory allocation for arbitrarily long input strings.
int lenA = lstrlenA(input);
int lenW = ::MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, input, lenA, NULL, 0);
if (lenW>0)
{
output = new wchar_t[lenW];
::MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, input, lenA, output, lenW);
}