Compiler Warning (level 3) C4066

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2024-03-06

characters beyond first in wide-character constant ignored

The compiler processes only the first character of a wide-character constant.

// C4066.cpp
// compile with: /W3
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
    wchar_t wc = L'AB';   // C4066

    std::wcout << wc;
}