One thing that is still horrific (imho) is unicode support. Last time I found that in order to print unicode strings with cross platform support on a simple way

One thing that is still horrific (imho) is unicode support. Last time I found that in order to print unicode strings with cross platform support on a simple way I required a boost library [1]. The dichotomy between standard and "wide" string APIs is kind of a mess. Also, construction, destruction and move semantics makes everything really complicated and even simple baseline code requires a bunch of boilerplate [2]. 1: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/develop/libs/nowide/doc/html/index.html https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/develop/libs/nowide/doc/html/... 2: https://gist.github.com/EmmanuelOga/12e1da5aedd9f6dc50e742cdc04fac28 https://gist.github.com/EmmanuelOga/12e1da5aedd9f6dc50e742cd...