[cfe-dev] RFC: A proposal to move toward using C++11 features in LLVM & Clang / bounding support for old host compilers

[Óscar Fuentes]

Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18 at gmail.com>
writes:

> 6. char16_t. If you ever use any UTF-16, this and u"" make your life a
> lot easier. Except if you have to support MingW gcc on Windows.

Please note that as per

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh567368.aspx

chart16_t and char32_t are not supported by any VS version.