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iradic

Mar 12th, 2007 3:14 PM

wchar_t and ascii

Hi,
Is it ok to assume that ascii characters have the same value for char and wchar_t types.

That is:

char 'a' == wchar_t L'a'

Bye

Ooble

Mar 13th, 2007 7:22 AM

According to the standards, yes, it's fine. However, wchar_t is only required to be at least 8 bits, so you can't necessarily use it for UTF-16 or other two-byte character implementations unless you can guarantee the compiler and OS support it.

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