How to write an unsigned short int literal?

Question

42 as unsigned int is well defined as \"42U\".

unsigned int foo = 42U; // yeah!

How can I write \"23\" so that it is clear it is an

Answer 1

Unfortunately, the only method defined for this is

One or two characters in single quotes ('), preceded by the letter L

According to http://cpp.comsci.us/etymology/literals.html

Which means you would have to represent your number as an ASCII escape sequence:

unsigned short bar = L'\x17';