Hi all, after the discussion in January this year I took over maintenance of Boost.Nowide. First goal: Integrate all changes and requests that came up during review and as Github Issues including the docs. Second goal: Get extensive CI running with coverage especially on Windows (it is a mainly Windows library) Third goal: Iron out bugs, performance issues and incompatibilities. Of great help was my fork I prepared (and announced here) earlier but it was still an incredible amount of work. I can now say I'm done! I invite everyone to test it, (re-)review the code or check the docu for anything that's missing: https://github.com/boostorg/nowide One of the bigger changes was to make the library "less header-only" (it already required compilation on Windows when using iostreams). This was due to some required functions being considered extensions by e.g. MinGW/Cygwin and hence failing for consumers build with `-std=c++98` (or similar). This now works! Final note for those interested: The standalone (non-Boost) version and converter will be available later. Happy poking!