c08_d103@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Ex-God) (03/03/89)
I have a question about wide character constants. If my system has
some way to input wide characters, and I put a wide character inside
single quotes without the L prefix, is the compiler supposed to figure
out that it's a wide character constant? And similarly, if I put a
wide character inside a string, is it supposed to realize that it's a
wide character string (and hopefully then make all characters in the
string wide instead of, for example, converting each two characters
into one wide)? I don't have the standard; I only have K&R II, and
their explanation or w_char is pretty vague.
Thanks,
-- Andrew Barnert (Andy Social/Andy Christ/Andy Matter/ex-God)
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In article <949@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> c08_d103@jhunix.UUCP (Ex-God) writes:
-I have a question about wide character constants. If my system has
-some way to input wide characters, and I put a wide character inside
-single quotes without the L prefix, is the compiler supposed to figure
-out that it's a wide character constant?
No, if you want a multibyte character constant or multibyte string
literal, you MUST specify the L prefix.