With the proliferation (if I think of a word that sounds more like how a disease spreads, I'll edit this) of unicode, it's become pretty common for new languages to make allowances for unicode strings, or to use unicode strings natively. In both cases, a character is a pretty strange type--and often we're talking about something that is 16 or 32 bits wide. This isn't the case in C++. I actually don't know off the top of my head what a character in C++ is (I think it's an 8-bit value representing... ascii?), so I think that (for experienced programmers, anyway) it might be good to mention that in passing.
With the proliferation (if I think of a word that sounds more like how a disease spreads, I'll edit this) of unicode, it's become pretty common for new languages to make allowances for unicode strings, or to use unicode strings natively. In both cases, a character is a pretty strange type--and often we're talking about something that is 16 or 32 bits wide. This isn't the case in C++. I actually don't know off the top of my head what a character in C++ is (I think it's an 8-bit value representing... ascii?), so I think that (for experienced programmers, anyway) it might be good to mention that in passing.