The Oxford meeting of the ISO C++ standards committee between 15-20 April resulted in new features beeing into the draft paper of the C++0x standard.
One of the features refer to Unicode support: a new header, called <cuchar>, was introduced. This header makes available new built-in types char16_t and char32_t, as well as new prefixes u and U to designate UTF-16 and UTF-32 encoded characters and strings.
char16_t c16 = u'A'; char32_t c32 = U'A'; char16_t* str16 = u"this is a UTF-16 encoded string"; char32_t* str32 = U"this is a UTF-32 encoded string";
A list of all papers submited before the Oxford meeting can be found here.
More about the results of the Oxford meeting can be found in: