title Characters | Microsoft Docs ms.custom ms.date 11/04/2016 ms.technology cpp-language ms.topic language-reference dev_langs C++ ms.assetid 4f42680f-42fd-4356-adae-735dc18c6727 author mikeblome ms.author mblome ms.workload cplusplus Characters The ASCII Character Set Multibyte Characters Bits per Character Character Sets Unrepresented Character Constants Wide Characters Converting Multibyte Characters Range of char Values See Also Implementation-Defined Behavior