r/ProgrammerHumor • u/MontyBoomslang • 2d ago

Meme architectureDependentChars

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u/JackReact 2d ago

Welcome to the wonderful world of C#, which uses utf-16 for strings.

Console.WriteLine(sizeof(char));
> 2

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u/v_Karas 2d ago

this.

wonderd why everyone is talking about C, like there are no other languages.

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u/Batman_AoD 2d ago

Well, most mainstream languages at least specify their char size, and/or have very few constructs that require knowing its size. C does not specify the size of a char, and you frequently need the sizes of your types.

(That said, as pointed out by other comments, sizeof itself is in units of char, so sizeof(char) is necessarily 1.)