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The keyword wchar_t is used to declare wide character variables. wchar_t size is implementation dependent, therefore development of portable applications cannot assume that popular character representation, such as <a href="http://www.unicode.org/" class="urlextern" title="http://www.unicode.org/" rel="nofollow">Unicode</a>, can fit into a wchar_t on every platform and using any compiler.
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