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C++ string conversion UTF8 <-> UTF16
#include <string>
#include <locale>
#include <codecvt>
//UTF-8 to UTF-16
std::string source;
//...
std::wstring_convert<std::codecvt_utf8_utf16<char16_t>,char16_t> convert;
std::u16string dest = convert.from_bytes(source);
//UTF-16 to UTF-8
std::u16string source;
//...
std::wstring_convert<std::codecvt_utf8_utf16<char16_t>,char16_t> convert;
std::string dest = convert.to_bytes(source);
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snowyu commented Mar 3, 2025

wstring(wchar_t) is utf-32 on linux.

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It's in the standard library of cpp

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It's in the standard library of cpp

What?

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