ICU UnicodeString to Locale Encoding

Question

As I understand it, Boost.Filesystem uses the native locale encoding, and I use ICU's UnicodeString instead of std::string as it works for Unicode. However, I want to convert my UnicodeString to some kind of std::string of the native locale ending. How would I do this? I'd like to avoid using C strings.

Answer 1

I think this gives the answers your looking for:

Conversions to native format

If tl;dr:

boost::filesystem::path p;
// ...
std::string native = p.string();