"When can a char be 16 bits?" Whenever an implementation says so. There are now few machines where the addressable unit is not 8 bits though, which is why lang

"When can a char be 16 bits?" Whenever an implementation says so. There are now few machines where the addressable unit is not 8 bits though, which is why languages like D and Java can get away with not supporting them. > I presume it'd still have a sizeof() of 1 though. The language standard requires that.