From bf7da14ba1a56022c279f5ce2f802dcccb173325 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: clubby789 <jamie@hill-daniel.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2021 09:06:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] cgen: make char literals wide (#7769)

---
 vlib/builtin/utf8_test.v | 8 ++++++++
 vlib/v/gen/cgen.v        | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/vlib/builtin/utf8_test.v b/vlib/builtin/utf8_test.v
index 2181406715..536d50173c 100644
--- a/vlib/builtin/utf8_test.v
+++ b/vlib/builtin/utf8_test.v
@@ -4,3 +4,11 @@ fn test_utf8_char_len() {
 	s := 'п'
 	assert utf8_char_len(s[0]) == 2
 }
+
+fn test_utf8_wide_char() {
+	r := `🌎`
+	val := r.str().str
+	unsafe {
+		assert '${val[0]:x}${val[1]:x}${val[2]:x}${val[3]:x}' == 'f09f8c8e'
+	}
+}
diff --git a/vlib/v/gen/cgen.v b/vlib/v/gen/cgen.v
index 13caaa0cd0..b42067a47e 100644
--- a/vlib/v/gen/cgen.v
+++ b/vlib/v/gen/cgen.v
@@ -2452,7 +2452,7 @@ fn (mut g Gen) expr(node ast.Expr) {
 			if node.val == r'\`' {
 				g.write("'`'")
 			} else {
-				g.write("'$node.val'")
+				g.write("L'$node.val'")
 			}
 		}
 		ast.AtExpr {