What are wide characters? @JacobSorber
What are wide characters?  @JacobSorber
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What are wide characters? // Wide characters, wide chars, wchar_t. We can't get very far into Unicode territory without coming across wide characters. This video gives you an introduction into one of the ways that you can store unicode text in your programs.

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