Convert wchar_t to char

Posted by Yan Cheng CHEOK on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Yan Cheng CHEOK
Published on 2010-06-11T03:14:06Z Indexed on 2010/06/11 3:23 UTC
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I was wondering is it safe to do so?

wchar_t wide = /* something */;
assert(wide >= 0 && wide < 256 &&);
char myChar = static_cast<char>(wide);

If I am pretty sure the wide char will fall within ASCII range.

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