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POWhat is the optimal multiplatform way of dealing with Unicode strings under C++?
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    copied!<p>I know that there are already several questions on StackOverflow about <code>std::string</code> versus <code>std::wstring</code> or similar but none of them proposed a full solution. </p> <p>In order to obtain a good answer I should define the requirements:</p> <ul> <li><strong>multiplatform</strong> usage, must work on Windows, OS X and Linux</li> <li>minimal effort for <strong>conversion to/from platform specific Unicode strings</strong> like <code>CFStringRef</code>, <code>wchar_t *</code>, <code>char*</code> as UTF-8 or other types as they are required by OS API. Remark: I don't need code-page convertion support because I expect to use only Unicode compatible functions on all operating systems supported.</li> <li>if requires an external library, this one should be <strong>open-source</strong> and under a very liberal license like BSD but not LGPL.</li> <li>be able to use a <strong>printf format</strong> syntax or similar.</li> <li>easy way of string allocation/deallocation </li> <li>performance is not very important because I assume that the Unicode strings are used only for application UI.</li> <li>some example could would be appreciated</li> </ul> <p>I would really appreciate only <strong>one proposed solution per answer</strong>, by doing this people may vote for their prefered alternative. If you have more than one alternative just add another answer.</p> <p>Please indicate something that <strong>did worked for you</strong>.</p> <p>Related questions:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/402283/stdwstring-vs-stdstring">stdwstring-vs-stdstring</a></li> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/621635/does-c0x-support-stdwstring-conversion-to-from-utf-8-byte-sequence">does-c0x-support-stdwstring-conversion-to-from-utf-8-byte-sequence</a></li> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/467139/portable-wchart-in-c">portable-wchart-in-c</a></li> </ul>
 

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