The fact still remains that wchar_t is still a royal pain to use across platforms. Sure, it defines the size of a single character consistently within the plat

The fact still remains that wchar_t is still a royal pain to use across platforms. Sure, it defines the size of a single character consistently within the platform. But it doesn't define what encoding that is. USC-2? USC-4? And the fact is: different compilers define it differently, which sucks in practice.