creative formatting of chars

[da77a]

I acknowledge that in many contexts people use chars to represent - well - characters. However, in many cases they are actually holding things that are not "printable" characters. And even when they are printable it is hard to know just how they should be printed.

The current behaviour is surprising (imho) - eg:

char one = 1;
char another_one = '1';
REQUIRE(one == another_one);

FAILED!
REQUIRE( one == another_one )
with expansion:
REQUIRE ( 1 == 1 )

Options seem to be

Print a 2 character expansion of "reserved" chars eg output one as '\1' and of course, '' for the dreaded \

Or concede that chars are just very short integers that may well be used to represent characters (which ones is highly dependent on locale) and "promote" them (in effect or literally) by printing them as integers. This is conventional/expected in C/C++ anyway? Far more expected than this:

PASSED!
CHECK( one+'0' == another_one )
with expansion:
CHECK( 49 == 1 )

[onqtam]

it really is confusing in it's current form - I took the stringification from Catch (including this) which behaves the same way - I will rework it to just print chars as integers.