807down vote string? wstring? std::string is a basic_string templated on a char, and std::wstring on a wchar_t. char vs. wchar_t char is supposed to hold a character, usually a 1-byte character. wchar_t is supposed to hold a wide character, and then,…
I need to convert between UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 for different API's/modules and since I know have the option to use C++11 am looking at the new string types. It looks like I can use string, u16string and u32string for UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32. I a…