Force UTF-8 handling for std::string in fmt

Question

In my C++17 project, I have a std::string which is known to contain UTF-8 encoded data. Is there any way to force fmt to treat its data as UTF-8 such that this works as expected?

fmt::print("{:-^11}", "あいう");
// should print "----あいう----", currently prints "-あいう-"

Answer 1

UTF-8 handling in {fmt} was recently improved and your example now works with the master branch:

#include <fmt/core.h>

int main() {
  fmt::print("{:-^11}", "あいう");
}

prints

----あいう----