Is the following function portable according to C++03 given any
compliant stream locale and a compliant compiler:

void parenthesize(std::wostream &out, int i)
{
out << out.widen('(') << i << out.widen(')');

}

What I'm mostly concerned about is the use of widen() and the encoding
of the character literals passed as argument - given the fact that the
used characters are part of the basic source character set.


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