C++ 20 has this char8_t and u8string which is guarantee to be a utf-8 character string. Is it safe to just reinterpret cast char8_t const* pointer to char const*?? Clearly it is not a strict aliasing rule violation. However I am not sure whether I would get screwed by the C locale system. Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10