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Character
conversions
locale-defined multibyte
(UTF-8, GB18030)
UTF-8
UTF-16
UTF-16 mbrtoc16 / c16rtomb (with C11's DR488)

codecvt<char16_t,char,mbstate_t>
codecvt_utf8_utf16<char16_t>
codecvt_utf8_utf16<char32_t>
codecvt_utf8_utf16<wchar_t>

N/A
UCS-2 c16rtomb (without C11's DR488) codecvt_utf8<char16_t> codecvt_utf16<char16_t>
UTF-32

mbrtoc32 / c32rtomb

codecvt<char32_t,char,mbstate_t>
codecvt_utf8<char32_t>

codecvt_utf16<char32_t>

system wchar_t:

UTF-32 (non-Windows)
UCS-2 (Windows)

mbsrtowcs / wcsrtombs
use_facet<codecvt
<wchar_t,char,mbstate_t>>(locale)

codecvt_utf8<wchar_t> codecvt_utf16<wchar_t>