namespace boost { std::string utf8_to_ansi(std::string const&s); std::string ansi_to_utf8(std::string const&s); std::wstring utf8_to_wide(std::string const&s); std::string wide_to_utf8(std::wstring const&s); }
ANSI doesn't really mean much. It's purely a windows thing.
utf8_to_locale, which would take a std::locale object, would make more sense.
1. std::locale based conversion using std::codecvt facet strongly depends on current implementation and this is bad point to start from. 2. These utf8_to_ansi and backwards should not be used outside windows scope, where ANSI means narrow windows API (a.k.a. ANSI API) 3. Under non-windows platform that should do anything to strings and pass them as is as native POSIX api is narrow and not wide. Artyom