On 30.06.2015 19:44, [email protected] wrote:
> I have been reading that wchat_t, and therefore wstring, is neither UTF-8 nor 
> a UTF-16 character set. So, what is wstring good for then? 
Whether it's UTF-16 or UCS-2 depends on the implementation of the library
that handles wstring.

Sources, which i can't remember right now, claim that MS libraries were
UCS-2 initially, then later quietly converted to UTF-16 under the hood.


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