UTF-8 support - char or wchar_t?

[Ole Laursen]

Martin Sebor <sebor@roguewave.com> writes:

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> The most portable way to do this, though, is to forget about codecvt
> and use iconv directly.

Thanks! What you are suggesting is to use a std::wostringstream,
extract a std::wstring with str(), put the data inside a std::string
and use an iconv wrapper to convert from the wchar_t encoding to
UTF-8, right? I'll try that.

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