std::string NarrowString(const std::wstring& str, const char* localeName = "C")
{
std::string result;
result.resize(str.size());
std::locale loc(localeName);
std::use_facet<std::ctype<wchar_t> >(loc).narrow(
str.c_str(), str.c_str() + str.size(), '?', &*result.begin());
return result;
}
It should use the current locale to convert the Unicode string. For characters that are not in the code page, '?' used by caracter. Tested with Visual C ++ 2005/2008.
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