Simon Rozman
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Windows takes care of internal converter state in MultiByteToWideChar and WideCharToMultiByte and keeps them thread-safe. On other platforms, iconv requires user to setup and keep converter state for thread-safe conversions. This sounds time consuming for every string conversion, therefore the concept of string converter (or converter state) has been extended to Windows too, allowing uniform client code. On Windows, using charset_encoder has no performance benefit, where on Linux and macOS, there should be. To be measured... Signed-off-by: Simon Rozman <simon@rozman.si>