Questions tagged [wide-api]

I need to open a file as std::fstream (or actually any other std::ostream) when file name is "Unicode" file name. Under MSVC I have non-standard extension std::fstream::open(wchar_t const *,...)? What can I do with other compilers like GCC (most…

Is it good/safe/possible to use the tiny utfcpp library for converting everything I get back from the wide Windows API (FindFirstFileW and such) to a valid UTF8 representation using utf16to8? I would like to use UTF8 internally, but am having…