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How to open an std::fstream (ofstream or ifstream) with a unicode filename?

I have a string encoded in UTF-16 and I want to create a file, where the name of the file would be this string.

UTF-16LE string looks like:

At first I want to make sure that system sees and displays correctly this name.

I try:

char *output=some address (points to memory where line is held)
ofstream out(output);
out.close();

On output I don’t get proper name.
It looks like:

For creating of the highlighted file I appended UTF-16LE mark, not highlighted file was created using just raw UTF-16 line – none of approaches works.

Are there some ways to create files with UTF-16LE names in Windows using only C++ functionality without WinApi (CreateFilew)?

My compiler is MinGW 4.0.4, Windows XP (but I want it to be working on all Windows)

Thanks in advance for any tips!

Answer 1

Thanks you all guys, but it seems that C++ streams are helpless in this case (at least I got such opinion).

So I used WinApi:

 #ifndef WIN32    // for Linux
   ofstream out(output);
   out.close();
 #else  // for Windows
   LPWSTR lp=(LPWSTR )output;
   CreateFileW(lp,GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE, FILE_SHARE_READ |  
        FILE_SHARE_WRITE,     NULL,CREATE_ALWAYS,FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,NULL );
  #endif

And I got an output file with a correct name:

Thanks again!