Re: How should I handle the multibyte char set string in C++?

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Thank you, I know how to handle this in Apache C++ Standard Library
now. I will try that.
Do you know the how can I use g++'s STL do this? I mean, conversion
between wchar_t*, which contain UCS-4 string, and char*, which contain
UCS-2 or UTF16 string.

The problem is raised when I try to do a project can be portable
between Windows and Linux. I try to write the unicode string to a
file.

When I choose UTF8 to write, I get 2 problems,

1) VC80's STL doesn't support UTF8's locale, (althought Win32 api
support it, but use win32 api will make some of the code non-portable)
2) All of the string is CJK characters, so UTF8 will cost at least 3
bytes to store, enlarge 50% for storage which is unnecessary if I
store just use UCS-2. And I'm sure all the characters is in BMP of
ISO-10646. So I'd better just use 16bit to store it in the file.

However, If I choose UCS2LE, just like what stored in wchar_t in VC, I
got problem of reading the file at Linux, which g++'s STL looks like
doesn't support UCS-2LE locale, and wchar_t in Linux is UCS4 rather
than UCS2, so I cannot directly read the content. (same kind of story,
since libiconv support UCS-2LE, but if I use libiconv it will make the
part of the code non-portable and I have to let mycode depends on
libiconv).

So, What should I do in this case?