topic 16bit characters in IAR in Kinetis Microcontrollers https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/16bit-characters-in-IAR/m-p/757558#M46187 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have some code written with Code Warrior that uses 16bit characters like so</P><P></P><P>char* str L"some string"</P><P></P><P>My understanding is that the L tells the compiler to treat the string as wide_t type characters. Trouble is in IAR the wide_t is 32bits so my string has 32bit characters. Is it possible to create a string in IAR with 16bit characters?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 14 Mar 2018 19:26:26 GMT ryanlush 2018-03-14T19:26:26Z 16bit characters in IAR https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/16bit-characters-in-IAR/m-p/757558#M46187 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have some code written with Code Warrior that uses 16bit characters like so</P><P></P><P>char* str L"some string"</P><P></P><P>My understanding is that the L tells the compiler to treat the string as wide_t type characters. Trouble is in IAR the wide_t is 32bits so my string has 32bit characters. Is it possible to create a string in IAR with 16bit characters?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 14 Mar 2018 19:26:26 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/Kinetis-Microcontrollers/16bit-characters-in-IAR/m-p/757558#M46187 ryanlush 2018-03-14T19:26:26Z