How it is best of all to set the encoding in C++?
I got used to working with Unicode (and wchar_t, wstring, wcin, wcout and L" ... "). I also save source in UTF-8.
At the moment I use MinGW (Windows 7) and run my program in Windows console (cmd.exe), but sometimes I can use gcc on GNU\Linux and run promgram in Linux console with UTF-8 encoding.
At all times I want to compile my source on Windows and on Linux and I want that all Unicode symbols were correctly inputed and outputed.
When I faced the next problem with encodings, I googled. Also I found the most different councils: setlocale(LC_ALL, "") and setlocale(LC_ALL, "xx_XX.UTF-8"), std::setlocale(LC_ALL, "") and std::setlocale(LC_ALL, "xx_XX.UTF-8") from <clocale>,
SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() from <windows.h> and many, many others.
At last I was bothered by this shamanism and I want to ask you: how it is correct to establish the encoding?