An integer type large enough to represent all characters of the largest supported extended character set, also known as the wide-character set. (It is not portable to make the assumption that wchar_t uses any particular encoding, such as UTF-16.)

It is normally used when you need to store characters over ASCII 255 , as it has a greater size than the character type char.

const wchar_t message_ahmaric[] = L"ሰላም ልዑል\\n"; //Ahmaric for "hello, world\\n"
const wchar_t message_chinese[] = L"你好，世界\\n";// Chinese for "hello, world\\n"
const wchar_t message_hebrew[]  = L"שלום עולם\\n"; //Hebrew for "hello, world\\n"
const wchar_t message_russian[] = L"Привет мир\\n";  //Russian for "hello, world\\n"
const wchar_t message_tamil[]   = L"ஹலோ உலகம்\\n"; //Tamil for "hello, world\\n"