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

You can keep all your strings UTF-8 encoded and just convert them to UTF-16 before interacting with WIn32 API. Take a look at UTF8-CPP library for some easy to use conversion functions