This is a preparation for
P2093R14 Formatted output
When the output of print is to the terminal it needs to use the native
API. This means transcoding UTF-8 to UTF-16 on Windows. The encoder's
interface is modeled after
P2728 Unicode in the Library, Part 1: UTF Transcoding
But only the required part for P2093R14 is implemented.
On Windows wchar_t is 16 bits, in order to test on platforms where
wchar_t is 32 bits the transcoder has support for char16_t. It also adds
and UTF-8 to UTF-32 encoder which is useful for other tests.
Note it is possible to use <codecvt> for transcoding, but that header is
deprecated. So rather write new code that is not deprecated; the hard
part, decoding, has already been done. The <codecvt> header also
requires locale support while the new code works without including
<locale>.
Note the current transcoder implementation can be optimized since it
basically does UTF-8 -> UTF-32 -> UTF-16. The first goal is to have a
working implementation. Since it's not part of the ABI it's possible to
do the optimization later.
Depends on D149672
Are we going to have a lot of stuff inside <print>? If so, it would probably make sense to introduce this utility under __print/encode.h instead.