Re: [Boost-users] Open a filename with a wstring or wchar_t *

On 02/08/10 12:46, Timothy Madden wrote:

Hello

Surprisingly enough, C++ file-based streams can be opened with a char * string (for the filename) only, while modern computer systems have Unicode filenames.

All of them but Microsoft Windows support UTF-8.

Is there a (good) way to open a file with a wstring in boost ?

Boost.Fileystem has wide characters support, but I would advise avoiding wide characters entirely.