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I read a few posts about best practices for strings and character encoding in C++, but I am struggling a bit with finding a general purpose approach that seems to me reasonably simple and correct. Could I ask for comments on the following? I'm inclined to use UTF-8 and UTF-32, and to define something like: typedef std::string string8; typedef std::basic_string<uint32_t> string32; The string8 class would be used for UTF-8, and having a separate type is just a reminder of the encoding. An alternative would be for string8 to be a subclass of std::string and to remove the methods that aren't quite right for UTF-8. The string32 class would be used for UTF-32 when a fixed character size is desired. The UTF-8 CPP functions, utf8::utf8to32() and utf8::utf32to8(), or even simpler wrapper functions, would be used to convert between the two.
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