Read Unicode UTF-8 file into wstring

Question

How can I read a Unicode (UTF-8) file into wstring(s) on the Windows platform?

Answer 1

This question was addressed in Confused about C++'s std::wstring, UTF-16, UTF-8 and displaying strings in a windows GUI. In sum, wstring is based upon the UCS-2 standard, which is the predecessor of UTF-16. This is a strictly two byte standard. I believe this covers Arabic.