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Strings

Strings

Character Types

char
signed char
unsigned char
wchar_t (16bit on Windows, 32bit virtually everywhere else)
char16_t (C++11)
char32_t (C++11)

String Types

std::string	std::basic_string<char>	C++98
std::wstring	std::basic_string<wchar_t>	C++98
std::u16string	std::basic_string<char16_t>	C++11
std::u32string	std::basic_string<char32_t>	C++11

Character Literals

\n, \nn, \nnn – octal value
\xnn… – hexadecimal value (char, wchar_t, char16_t, char32_t)
\unnnn – Unicode BMP code point (no surrogate pairs)
\Unnnnnnnn – Unicode code point (may map to more than one code unit)

String Literals

`“”`	`const char[]`		C++98
`L“”`	`const wchar_t[]`		C++98
`u8“”`	`const char[]`	UTF-8	C++11
`u“”`	`const char16_t[]`	UTF-16	C++11
`U“”`	`const char32_t[]`	UTF-32	C++11

Additionally, R“<delimiter>…<delimiter>” for “raw” literals.