From d10c176bb67dd842d927624df1eabbb9e1cc2655 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cristian Ritter <cristian_ritter@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:52:13 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] re-adding u32string if ASCII instead of use only Boost.Locale

---
 src/ifcparse/IfcCharacterDecoder.cpp | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/ifcparse/IfcCharacterDecoder.cpp b/src/ifcparse/IfcCharacterDecoder.cpp
index 0935b70e6c..7e62910808 100644
--- a/src/ifcparse/IfcCharacterDecoder.cpp
+++ b/src/ifcparse/IfcCharacterDecoder.cpp
@@ -422,5 +422,15 @@ std::string IfcUtil::convert_utf8(const std::u32string& string) {
 }
 
 std::u32string IfcUtil::convert_utf8(const std::string& s) {
+    bool is_ascii = true;
+    for (char c : s) {
+        if (static_cast<unsigned char>(c) >= 128) {
+            is_ascii = false;
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+    if (is_ascii) {
+        return std::u32string(s.begin(), s.end());
+    }
     return boost::locale::conv::utf_to_utf<char32_t>(s);
 }