Convert from Unicode to utf-8 to iso-8859-1 and back to utf-8

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C++ charset conversion example showing how to convert between Unicode, utf-8, and iso-8859-1.

#define _CRTDBG_MAP_ALLOC
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <crtdbg.h>
#include "C:/ck2000/components/ChilkatLib/CkString.h"
#include "C:/ck2000/components/ChilkatLib/CkByteData.h"
#include "C:/ck2000/components/ChilkatLib/CkCharset.h"
#include "C:/ck2000/components/ChilkatLib/CkSettings.h"

int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
                     HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
                     LPSTR     lpCmdLine,
                     int       nCmdShow)
{
    CkCharset *cc = new CkCharset;
    cc->UnlockComponent("UnlockCode");

    // Load Unicode text (2 byte/char Unicode)
    CkByteData *inData = new CkByteData;
    inData->loadFile("testU.txt");

    // Convert from Unicode to utf-8
    CkByteData *outData = new CkByteData;
    cc->put_ToCharset("utf-8");
    cc->ConvertFromUnicode(*inData,*outData);

    // Convert from utf-8 to iso-8859-1
    CkByteData *outData2 = new CkByteData;
    cc->put_FromCharset("utf-8");
    cc->put_ToCharset("iso-8859-1");
    cc->ConvertData(*outData,*outData2);

    // Convert from iso-8859-1 to utf-8
    CkByteData *outData3 = new CkByteData;
    cc->put_FromCharset("iso-8859-1");
    cc->put_ToCharset("utf-8");
    cc->ConvertData(*outData2,*outData3);

    // Save the utf-8 to a file.
    outData3->saveFile("outData3.txt");

    delete inData;
    delete outData;
    delete outData2;
    delete outData3;
    delete cc;

    // Only necessary if checking for memory leaks.
    // Only call just before exiting the program.
     CkSettings::cleanupMemory();

    _CrtDumpMemoryLeaks();

    return 0;
}