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Subject: Re: char[] & non-Latin letters
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Date: 28 Aug 2002 03:43:05 GMT
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[fu-t set]

in alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++ i read:

>#define TEST_VALUE 65
>
>char c_value = TEST_VALUE;
>wchar_t wc_value = TEST_VALUE;

you presume too much.  you think you know that 65 is a character, but there
is no guarantee that it is, whether you use char or wchar_t -- you have no
idea what that encoding may be used.  use character literals when you mean
to initialize character variables, e.g.,

char c_value = 'A';
wchar_t wc_value = L'A';

>  cout << c_value << endl;
>  cout << wc_value << endl;

wcout << wc_value << endl;

yes it's cumbersome that cout doesn't adapt to wide arguments, but that's
life.

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