I have to code in an application which is in Unicode UTF-8 in Windows, MSVC 10. I’m aware that the UTF-8 encoded strings would use either 1 or 2 bytes per character. So, my question is : Is std::string suitable for this? If yes, how do I decode the strings? As far as I understand std::string is just an array of bytes and it doesn’t provide any decoding logic.
How can I know the logical length of the string? How can I extract logical characters from a string? Are there any libraries which helps me to extract logical characters from the string?
e.g : If I have the string “olé” in std::string, I need to know that the length is 3, but not 4.
A commonally used library is ICU – International Components for Unicode