C++ has no idea of Unicode. Use an external library such as ICU ( UnicodeString class ) or Qt ( QString class ), both support Unicode, including UTF-8.
What locale does is that it gives the program information about the external encoding, but assuming that the internal encoding didn't change. If you want to output UTF-8 you need to do it from wchar_t not from char*.
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