Representation of character literal in octal format.

[Narasimha Rao B.]

Hi,
I am always confused with representation of character literal. Here are two of my basic doubts,
1. char c=533; // Is valid one.
2. char c1 = '\1025'; // compile time error.
Why i am getting the error at line no 2. When i convert the octal number 1025 to decimal, it is equivalent to 533.
Some where i read that, when assigning the octal value to the character, its value should be between 000 and 377 - Why is this limit?
One more thing, when i am using Unicode representation, number of characters after \u should be less than 5. Even the below one is not valid,
char c2 = '\u00001';
Why is this limit??
I hope some will clarify all these doubts.
Thanks a lot,
Narasimha.

[Davy Kelly]

hi,
because your second line is trying to get an unicode character, with using \ but not using the u so try it with \uwhatever number
octal numbers as far as i remember always have a preceeding 0 like 010 or 022526
hexadecimal numbers are 0x123 or 0X0023 the 0x gives it away
decimal is just normal numbers 1234567890
remember chars can only go from 0 to 65535, you can use an int number as long as its in range.
this may help
Davy