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Asked: June 7, 20262026-06-07T23:19:45+00:00 2026-06-07T23:19:45+00:00

Are there any downsides to using ‘?’ -style character literals to compare against, or

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Are there any downsides to using '?'-style character literals to compare against, or assign to, values known to be of type wchar_t, instead of using L'?'-style literals?

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    2026-06-07T23:19:47+00:00Added an answer on June 7, 2026 at 11:19 pm

    The only downside is that your program might fail on stone-age systems using EBCDIC. On any real world system worth consideration, char and wchar_t values for the portable character set are all ASCII, and on increasingly many (but not all), wchar_t is a Unicode codepoint number.

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