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A variable of type WideChar, also referred to as UnicodeChar, is exactly 2 bytes in size, and contains one Unicode character in UTF-16 encoding. As it is impossible to encode all Unicode code points in 2 bytes,  two WideChars may be needed to encode a single code point.

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A variable of type WideChar, also referred to as UnicodeChar, is exactly 2 bytes in size, and contains one Unicode character in UTF-16 encoding. As it is impossible to encode all Unicode code points in 2 bytes, two WideChars may be needed to encode a single code point.