Shift-JIS decoding fails using wifstrem in Visual C++ 2013

Question

I am trying to read a text file encoded in Shift-JIS (cp 932) using std::wifstream, and std::getline. The following code works in VS2010 but fails in VS2013:

Answer 1

I have found a workaround: if for the creation of the locale I explicitly change the global MBC code page, the locale is initialized correctly, and the lines are read and decoded as expected.

const int oldMbcp = _getmbcp();
_setmbcp(932);
const std::locale locale("Japanese_Japan.932");
_setmbcp(oldMbcp);