That's what will happen until there's a defacto/standard library for this stuff. Languages like Python and Go have a wider base in the standard library. C++14 s

That's what will happen until there's a defacto/standard library for this stuff. Languages like Python and Go have a wider base in the standard library. C++14 still only gives you platform dependent 'wide' strings, UTF-8 string literals, and UTF-8 conversion... which makes things awkward.