Is a wide character string literal starting with L like L“Hello World” guaranteed to be encoded in Unicode?

Question

I\'ve recently tried to get the full picture about what steps it takes to create platform independent C++ applications that support unicode. A thing that is confusing to me

Answer 1

The standard makes no mention of encoding formats for strings.

Take a look at ICU from IBM (its free). http://site.icu-project.org/