Johnathan,
The problem is really that I haven't finished writing the components that make this easy. For this, I apologize. (See User's Guide-->Code Conversion.)
Looking at the documentation for Code Conversion I do not see any way to convert from Unicode to multibyte. The converter class only works one way from multibyte to Unicode. I suppose this falls within the category of "not-yet-implemented." I would like to see converter_impl accept codecvt_type as a template argument perhaps with a default of std::codecvt but so that I can replace it. const codecvt_type& cvt = codecvt_type() also would be added to the converter constructor. Regex works this way. The other common code conversion task that is fairly Windows specific but a common task nonetheless is to convert \r\n to and from \n in text streams. Regards, George.