只有Windows API，前c++ 11实现，以防有人需要它:

#include <stdexcept>
#include <vector>
#include <windows.h>

using std::runtime_error;
using std::string;
using std::vector;
using std::wstring;

wstring utf8toUtf16(const string & str)
{
   if (str.empty())
      return wstring();

   size_t charsNeeded = ::MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, 
      str.data(), (int)str.size(), NULL, 0);
   if (charsNeeded == 0)
      throw runtime_error("Failed converting UTF-8 string to UTF-16");

   vector<wchar_t> buffer(charsNeeded);
   int charsConverted = ::MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, 
      str.data(), (int)str.size(), &buffer[0], buffer.size());
   if (charsConverted == 0)
      throw runtime_error("Failed converting UTF-8 string to UTF-16");

   return wstring(&buffer[0], charsConverted);
}

只有Windows API，前c++ 11实现，以防有人需要它:

#include <stdexcept>
#include <vector>
#include <windows.h>

using std::runtime_error;
using std::string;
using std::vector;
using std::wstring;

wstring utf8toUtf16(const string & str)
{
   if (str.empty())
      return wstring();

   size_t charsNeeded = ::MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, 
      str.data(), (int)str.size(), NULL, 0);
   if (charsNeeded == 0)
      throw runtime_error("Failed converting UTF-8 string to UTF-16");

   vector<wchar_t> buffer(charsNeeded);
   int charsConverted = ::MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, 
      str.data(), (int)str.size(), &buffer[0], buffer.size());
   if (charsConverted == 0)
      throw runtime_error("Failed converting UTF-8 string to UTF-16");

   return wstring(&buffer[0], charsConverted);
}

如果你有QT，如果你懒得实现一个函数和东西，你可以使用

std::string str;
QString(str).toStdWString()

int StringToWString(std::wstring &ws, const std::string &s)
{
    std::wstring wsTmp(s.begin(), s.end());

    ws = wsTmp;

    return 0;
}

使用这段代码将字符串转换为wstring

std::wstring string2wString(const std::string& s){
    int len;
    int slength = (int)s.length() + 1;
    len = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, s.c_str(), slength, 0, 0); 
    wchar_t* buf = new wchar_t[len];
    MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, s.c_str(), slength, buf, len);
    std::wstring r(buf);
    delete[] buf;
    return r;
}

int main(){
    std::wstring str="your string";
    std::wstring wStr=string2wString(str);
    return 0;
}

从char*到wstring:

char* str = "hello worlddd";
wstring wstr (str, str+strlen(str));

从string到wstring:

string str = "hello worlddd";
wstring wstr (str.begin(), str.end());

注意，只有在被转换的字符串只包含ASCII字符时，这种方法才有效。