4.11 Wide Characters

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4.11 Wide Characters

The problem with the char data type is that it was designed to hold only a basic character set. This is fine for all the American characters, but what about foreign languages? That where the wchar_t data type comes in. It is used to specify "wide characters" which include not only the basic American characters, but foreign characters as well. A wide character is declared just like a simple character:

 char simple;   // A simple character wchar_t wide;  // A wide character 

A simple character is declared by putting the character inside single quotes: 'X' . A wide character uses an "L" prefix to indicate that it is a wide character: L' ' .

For example:

simple = 'X';

wide = L' ';

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