How to output wide strings to narrow streams with standard library?

[Timothy Madden]

Hello

I noticed that
wcout << "Message text";
wcout << endl;
works just fine despite wcout being a wide stream and "Message text"
being a narrow string.

How can I get the reverse working ? I want to write wide strings to
narrow streams:
cout << L"Message text";
cout << endl;
Currently this just outputs a pointer value (The address of the first
'M' in "Message text". How can I get this expression to work ?

Thank you,
Timothy Madden

 

[Maxim Yegorushkin]

Hello

I noticed that
wcout << "Message text";
wcout << endl;
works just fine despite wcout being a wide stream and "Message text"
being a narrow string.

How can I get the reverse working ? I want to write wide strings to
narrow streams:
cout << L"Message text";
cout << endl;
Currently this just outputs a pointer value (The address of the first
'M' in "Message text". How can I get this expression to work ?

Start from
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/libs/iostreams/doc/guide/code_conversion.html