Minimalist GNU for Windows
Why don't wide characters work with libstdc++?
The wide-character parts of the GCC Standard C++ Library (libstdc++) have not yet been fully ported to Windows, so you cannot use most of these features with MinGW. If you try to use things like std::wcout</code> or <code>basic_string<wchar_t> then you will probably get compiler or linker errors.
This has been discussed frequently on the mailing lists:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/10819
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/13125
If you really need these features then one alternative is to use the STLPort library from
http://www.stlport.org/ instead of libstdc++.


