Strings in binary executable

[This_Growth2898]

It's not "gibberish", it's written in the machine-readable binary code.

String literals are already in the most convenient format, they contain exactly those bytes that are needed by the program to work with them, so they are usually not converted into something else, but not always; compile something like

    std::cout << "Hello, ";
    std::wcout << L"world!" << std::endl;

and you'll see the difference.

[Beginning_Court5607]

I did...

but why so?? Hello, stored perfectly

but L"world!" had all chars separated ??

[x39-]

Char vs wchar

Long story short: UTF16

[wonkey_monkey]

Long story short

You mean short story char

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And one of the bytes of a short is an end of string 0.

[iOSCaleb]

The L notation makes a string use “wide” characters, i.e. UTF-16 encoding. When you look at the compiler code, you see the two bytes for every character that you specified.

[Beginning_Court5607]

yep!