UTF-8 support - char or wchar_t?

[Paolo Carlini]

Martin Sebor wrote:

> I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

Likewise ;)

> fstream must use the codecvt facet that's installed in the locale 
> imbued in it. If
> the fstream object is imbued with locale("fi_FI.UTF-8") it must
> use codecvt_byname<char, char>.

Could you please cite the specific section of the standard requiring this?
Definitely, *not* 27.8.1.1, p5.

> There isn't any codecvt<char, char> in any named locale other than C 
> or POSIX.

For that matter, I don't think any instantiation of codecvt_byname is 
required...

Paolo.