program_options in wchar_t

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In Visual Studio 2013, ansi MFC builds are deprecated. More products will have to convert to wchar_t. I am aware that wchar_t is not the best Unicode representation, but it is quite dominant on Windows platforms. Some program_options parts however are bound to hard code ansi strings. For example the options_description uses std::string and char*:

po::options_description desc("Allowed options");

std::wcout << desc; //error (actual use is a std::wofstream)

Can't this just made complete template based on char type?

[aothms]

Any updates on this?