Re: [boost] [filesystem] becoming worse than the standard?

Gavin Lambert wrote:

Using wchar_t on Windows is actually the least painful option. (And you don't have to worry about locales and imbuements etc if you never try to convert to not-wchar_t.)

That's only if your program never runs on anything else. For portable code, using char and UTF-8 is the least painful option. We have an entire library in Boost for this purpose, whose documentation does a reasonable job explaining that. https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_80_0/libs/nowide/doc/html/index.html