> ... This document also recommends choosing UTF-8 for internal string representation in Windows applications ... I used mingw32-w64 to cross-compile for Windo

> ... This document also recommends choosing UTF-8 for internal string representation in Windows applications ... I used mingw32-w64 to cross-compile for Windows (with iconv) and I can say it works great now. http://mingw-w64.org/doku.php http://mingw-w64.org/doku.php