How to convert UTF-8 std::string to UTF-16 std::wstring?

Question

If I have a UTF-8 std::string how do I convert it to a UTF-16 std::wstring? Actually, I want to compare two Persian words.

Answer 1

Microsoft has developed a beautiful library for such conversions as part of their Casablanca project also named as CPPRESTSDK. This is marked under the namespaces utility::conversions.

A simple usage of it would look something like this on using namespace

utility::conversions

utf8_to_utf16("sample_string");