title: C String Literal "too big for character"
body: <p>With MSVC 2010 i try to compile this in C or C++ mode (needs to be compilable in both) and 
  it does not work. Why? I thought and found in the documentation that '\x' takes the next two characters as hex characters and not more (4 characters when using \X"). </p>
  
  <p>I also learned that there is no portable way to use character codes outside ASCII in C source code anyway, so how can i specify some german ISO-8859-1 characters?</p>
  
  <pre><code>int main() {
       char* x = "\xBCd";  // Why is this not char(188) + 'd'
  }
  
  // returns  test.c(2) : error C2022: '3021' : too big for character
  // and a warning with GCC
  </code></pre>