How to deal with Unicode strings in C/C++ in a cross-platform friendly way?

Question

On platforms different than Windows you could easily use char * strings and treat them as UTF-8.

The problem is that on Windows you are required to acce

Answer 1

I can only suggest you to check this library out: http://cppcms.sourceforge.net/boost_locale/docs/
It might help, it's a boost candidate for now but I believe it will make it.