UTF-8 encoding works "as is" based on byte strings (char[]). The latest versions of the draft standard provide somewhat more support.
I recommend heading toward a future where only UTF-8 encoding is used for multibyte characters and UCS-2 or similar for wchar_t. There is no need to support several different encodings.
I recommend heading toward a future where only UTF-8 encoding is used for multibyte characters and UCS-2 or similar for wchar_t. There is no need to support several different encodings.