...a complete range of functions to support UTF8, and then just a conversion to UTF16.

...std::hash_map<
int,
};

typedef UnicodeString<UTF8_CODE,UTF8_CODE_MAX>    String8; typedef UnicodeString<UTF16...

...array
2) Support for 3 character types (UTF8, UTF16, UTF32) is handy, but
 not critical...

...types, you want 2 (UTF8 + char) or
maybe even 3 (UTF8 + char + wchar).

I have...

...think there is a way to optimise UTF8 though: pre-scan the string and record...

...there are different "wrappings" of it, like UTF8, 16 and so on. They do the...

...if I read this right ... (been using UTF8 for ages and ignored what it
represents...

...values to be one "char"
then the UTF8 should also consider the 6 or more...

...a String class that was utf8 internally
the problem with utf8 is that the the...

...clearer.

I think wchar[] is good for UTF8-UTF16-UNICODE representations, but it is inconvenient...