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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Wide characters
Message-ID: <9775@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 3 Mar 89 10:27:44 GMT
References: <949@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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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.