wchar_t

Question

Hi, can you explain me please which is the meaning and how can I use this special type?
thank you

Answer 1

I'm afraid I don't have a qualified answer to give, but here's what I've found through a simple search; basically, it is a type that represents wide character, something people came up with to overcome the limitations of ASCII character set, that didn't have support for non latin character sets. I think somehow it is related to Unicode character set, but I could be wrong. Anyways, I hope these links can help to explain even just a bit better : )

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_character

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cwchar/wchar_t/

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/types

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/wide

Hth, cmiiw

Answer 2

@Simo87, You're welcome : )

Answer 3

thanks

Answer 4

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