Since UCRT, UTF-8 locale is fully supported as a “code page” locale (e.g., setlocale(LC_ALL, ".UTF8") ).
: Code that prepares the environment for a program to run (e.g., setting up the stack and handling command-line arguments) before the main() function executes. microsoft c runtime
The single most important recent change is the , introduced with VS2015. Before UCRT, each Visual Studio version shipped its own msvcrXXX.dll , leading to “DLL hell” — applications needing multiple versions installed. With UCRT, the standard C library functions became part of the Windows OS (starting with Windows 10), and updates come via Windows Update. Since UCRT, UTF-8 locale is fully supported as