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13 lines
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Many C++ developers miss an easy and portable way of handling Unicode
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encoded strings. The original C++ Standard (known as C++98 or C++03) is
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Unicode agnostic. C++11 provides some support for Unicode on core
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language and library level: u8, u, and U character and string literals,
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char16_t and char32_t character types, u16string and u32string library
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classes, and codecvt support for conversions between Unicode encoding
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forms. In the meantime, developers use third party libraries like ICU,
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OS specific capabilities, or simply roll out their own solutions.
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In order to easily handle UTF-8 encoded Unicode strings, I came up with
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a small generic library. For anybody used to work with STL algorithms
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and iterators, it should be easy and natural to use.
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