Hi,

Is the following statement  always correct  according to the c++ standard?
wchar_t('a') == L'a'

Thanks,

Gil


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"Gil Shafriri" <gilsh@microsoft.com> writes:

|>  Is the following statement always correct according to the c++
|>  standard?  wchar_t('a') =3D=3D L'a'

Should it be?  For historical reasons, wchar_t is an integral type (as
is char).  Conversions between integral types must preserve value
(supposing that the target type can hold the value).  This means
numerical value.  If an implementation uses EBCDIC for standard char,
and Unicode for wchar_t, it is guaranteed that this statement is
incorrect, since wchar_t('a') has the numeric value of EBCDIC 'a' (194,
I think), where as L'a' has the numeric value of Unicode 'a' (97).

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