title: Special characters to int, and then back
body: <p>So what I want, is for example to convert the letter 'a' into 97 (such as it is in the ASCII table), and then convert 67 into 'a'.
  I actually perform a load of mathematics and stuff to the letter, treating it as binary number - so the transition is necessary.
  However for special characters it is not working nicely.</p>
  
  <pre><code>char c = 'ÿ';
  int i = int(c);
  wchar_t wTemp = static_cast&lt;wchar_t&gt;(i);
  wchar_t* w = &amp;wTemp;
  String^ newI = gcnew String(w);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>That symbol is just a random one I found in an image (the type of character that will need to be read). It just comes out as a completely different symbol. I have no idea why, or what to do?</p>