In addition to what Rick said, the way 8 bit character are displayed depends on the way they are translated, and you can use different codepages as well as different conversion methods for that.
I would try it with codecvt, even though it's deprecated. You can find more info and a code example
here[
^]. If you're on Windows, the
MS docs on codecvt[
^] may be very useful too.
If you don't want to use deprecated functions, the
mbstowcs[
^] family of functions could offer the way to go.
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