However C also did not agree on UTF8. There are lots libraries which use UTF16 encoding, so you would need to convert for these if you stick to UTF8. And you ma

However C also did not agree on UTF8. There are lots libraries which use UTF16 encoding, so you would need to convert for these if you stick to UTF8. And you maybe need some conversion anyway, because one system expects zero terminated strings while another expects explicit length fields. Unfortunately strings are really a mess.