Handling UTF-8 in C++

Question

To find out if C++ is the right language for a project of mine, I wanna test the UTF-8 capabilities. According to references, I built this example:

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Answer 1

Remember that on startup of the main program, the "C" locale is selected as default. You probably don't want this if you handle utf-8. Calling setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") turns off this default, and you get whatever is defined in the environment (presumably a utf-8 locale).