Alternative to missing <codecvt> header

[LB]

Sadly, MSVC is ahead of GCC - libstdc++ does not yet support the <codecvt> header, so we can't do this in GCC:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/4786824/1959975
So what cross-platform standard alternative is there?

[Albatross]

I think LLVM's libc++ has fully implemented the C++11 standard library. You could see if that works for you.

EDIT: Otherwise, you can implement a function yourself if you don't feel like changing standard libraries. :P

-Albatross

[Cubbi]

Yes, I use libc++ (with clang++) for my <codecvt> needs on Linux.. Otherwise, there's boost.locale.

[LB]

Unfortunately libc++ is not supported on Windows, and using boost is completely out of the question for this specific project (but perfectly within reason everywhere else).

But, this topic is solved anyway.