In the book "The Complete Reference-JAVA" by Herbert Schildt.
Its written there that "In C/C++, char is an integer type that is 8 bit wide and char in JAVA is a unicode 16 bits wide."
I ve understud the point but I want to ask that char in JAVA isn't int type and how char in C/C++ are int type.
please clear my doubts
Java chars are 16 bit integers that are used to hold Unicode values. You can do arithmetic with them if you want. The type "int" is a 32 bit signed inetger.
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/typesValues.html#4.2
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