package odbc

import (
	"unicode/utf16"
)

// StringToUTF16 returns the UTF-16 encoding of the UTF-8 string s,
// with a terminating NUL added.
func StringToUTF16(s string) []uint16 { return utf16.Encode([]rune(s + "\x00")) }

// UTF16ToString returns the UTF-8 encoding of the UTF-16 sequence s,
// with a terminating NUL removed.
func UTF16ToString(s []uint16) string {
	for i, v := range s {
		if v == 0 {
			s = s[0:i]
			break
		}
	}
	return string(utf16.Decode(s))
}

// StringToUTF16Ptr returns pointer to the UTF-16 encoding of
// the UTF-8 string s, with a terminating NUL added.
func StringToUTF16Ptr(s string) *uint16 { return &StringToUTF16(s)[0] }