Indeed, exactly what is the "C" way of elegantly introducing dynamically-sized arrays and Unicode strings? Memory management? You use external libraries of yo

Indeed, exactly what is the "C" way of elegantly introducing dynamically-sized arrays and Unicode strings? Memory management? You use external libraries of your choosing. In my mind stl::vector and stl::wstring (basic_string<wchar_t>) are perfectly good choices for that, in an otherwise completely C context. std::auto_ptr... not so much.