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Honestly, I just don't get the following design decision in C++ Standard library. When writing wide characters to a file, the wofstream converts wchar_t into char characters: #include <fstream> #include <string> int main() { using namespace std; wstring someString = L"Hello StackOverflow!"; wofstream file(L"Test.txt"); file << someString; // the output file will consist of ASCII characters! } I am aware that this has to do with the standard codecvt . There is codecvt for utf8 in Boost . Also, there is a codecvt for utf16 by Martin York here on SO . The question is why the standard codecvt converts wide-characters? why not write the characters as they are! Also, are we gonna get real unicode streams with C++0x or am I missing something here?
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