Convert wstring to string encoded in UTF-8

Question

I need to convert between wstring and string. I figured out, that using codecvt facet should do the trick, but it doesn\'t seem to work for utf-8 locale.

My idea is,

Answer 1

You can use boost's utf_to_utf converter to get char format to store in std::string.

std::string myresult = boost::locale::conv::utf_to_utf(my_wstring);