Jonathan M Davis:
It certainly sounds like a nice enhancement though to be able to do'a'despecially if the c and w versions gave errors when the character wouldn't fitin a char or wchar, which isn't the case with a cast.
I have added your idea to the bug report that I opened time ago: https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11103 Bye, bearophile