GCC and Unicode (OT)

[Samuel A. Falvo II]

Please indulge my off-topic request for a brief moment -- it's nothing at
all Python related, but I'm not having much luck with this particular problem.
Does anyone know of any way to make GCC produce 16-bit characters when
encoding a Unicode string?  That is, if I have:

	wchar_t *myText = L"ABCD";
	
I want myText to point to the following:

	0x0041 0x0042 0x0043 0x0044

instead of:

	0x00000041 0x00000042 0x00000043 0x00000044

I'm using GCC under the Linux operating system.

Thanks for any tips you folks have, and I apologize for the off-topic nature
of this message.

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Samuel A. Falvo II
Oceanside, CA