What is the difference between wmain and main?

Question

So I have some class starting with

#include 
#include 

and there is a wmain function .

Answer 1

The difference between main and wmain is the type used to represent the arguments to the program. The main function uses normal char while wmain uses wchar_t which can accept unicode values

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