Size of A Wide Character
The Microsoft Windows application programming interface Win32, as well as the Java and .Net Framework platforms, require that wide character variables be defined as 16-bit values, and that characters be encoded using UTF-16 (due to former use of UCS-2), while modern Unix-like systems generally require 32-bit values encoded using UTF-32.
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