Struggling to convert vector<char> to wstring
问题 I need to convert utf16 text to utf8. The actual conversion code is simple: std::wstring in(...); std::string out = boost::locale::conv::utf_to_utf<char, wchar_t>(in); However the issue is that the UTF16 is read from a file and it may or may not contain BOM. My code needs to be portable (minimum is windows/osx/linux). I'm really struggling to figure out how to create a wstring from the byte sequence. EDIT: this is not a duplicate of the linked question, as in that question the OP needs to