On Feb 5, 5:15 pm, Christopher <cp...@austin.rr.com> wrote:

> Mayhaps the file "smthg" does not contain text that is convertable to
> a wstring?

No. It contains text convertible to wstring.

> What's in the file? Also did you ever check if it actually got opened?

Yes I did, problem is not in file opening.
File contains text with national characters (cz, de).

Cheers.