Implicit and explicit encoding of wxString data

This blog post is about encoding and decoding non-ASCII characters in wxString’s. TL;DR: Define the macro wxNO_IMPLICIT_WXSTRING_ENCODING if you want your compiler to refuse to convert wxStrings to and from C strings, unless you explicitly indicate the encoding. The dim and distant past A long time ago, when wxWidgets 2.8 ruled the world, developers had to choose between two different wxWidgets builds: “Unicode” and “ANSI”. Anyone living (or exporting their software) out of the United States probably chose