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From: Ross Smith <rosss AT pharos DOT co DOT nz>
To: "'Alex Vinokur'" <alexvn AT connect DOT to>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Cc: gcc-help AT gcc DOT gnu DOT org
Subject: RE: Problem with wchar_t
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:34:05 +1200
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> From: Alex Vinokur [mailto:alexvn AT connect DOT to]
> 
> wchar_t wch1 = 65;
> 
> Why does 'cout << wch1' print '65' (but not 'A') ?

Because you're trying to write a wide character to a narrow character
stream. To get 'A', you'd need to write it to wcout instead of cout.
But you'll find you can't do that anyway, because Cygwin doesn't
support wide characters (it has the wchar_t type, but not much else).

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Ross Smith ...................... Pharos Systems, Auckland, New Zealand

        "It's never too soon to start planning, and, in fact,
                it's usually too late." -- Chad Orzel

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