how to localize console and GUI apps in Windows

[Andrei via Digitalmars-d-learn]

There is one everlasting problem writing Cyrillic programs in 
Windows: Microsoft consequently invented two much different code 
pages for Russia and other Cyrillic-alphabet countries: first was 
MSDOS-866 (and alike), second Windows-1251. Nowadays MS Windows 
uses first code page for console programs, second for GUI 
applications, and there always are many workarounds to get proper 
translation between them. Mostly a programmer should write 
program sources either in one code page for console and other for 
GUI, or use .NET, which basically uses UTF8 in sources and makes 
seamless translation depending on back end.

In D language which uses only UTF8 for string encoding I cannot 
write neither MS866 code page program texts, nor Windows-1251 - 
both cases end in a compiler error like "Invalid trailing code 
unit" or "Outside Unicode code space". And writing Cyrillic 
strings in UTF8 format is fatal for both console and GUI Windows 
targets.

My question is: is there any standard means to translate Cyrillic 
or any other localized UTF8 strings for console and GUI output in 
D libraries. If so - where I can get more information and good 
example. Google would not help.

Thanks.