id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc 10952,program_options in wchar_t,gast128@…,Vladimir Prus,"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*: {{{#!python 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?",Feature Requests,new,To Be Determined,program_options,Boost 1.57.0,Problem,,wchar_t,