ing instead:</p>
<div class="code c++ highlight-c++"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>fmt::format(L&quot;Cyrillic letter {}&quot;, L&#39;\x42e&#39;);
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<p>For comparison, writing a wide character to <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">std::ostream</span></code> results in
its numeric value being written to the stream (i.e. 1070 instead of letter &#8216;ю&#8217;
which is represented by <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">L'\x42e'</span></code> if we use Un