UNICODE and textout problems

I''m writing a simple program that prints single charecters, I tried to convert it to unicode but I get an error in textout function that says cannot convert wchar_t to constant char, ok thats simple enough, textout doesn''t like data types other than char. so should I be using a wide charecter version of textout that I couldn''t find or am I missing somthing? this is the important parts of the code I think, if you want it all just say so

#include <windows.h>
#include <string>
#include <tchar.h> // don''t think I need this, I was wrong.


#define UNICODE


LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProcedure (HWND hwnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{

    HDC         hdc ;
    PAINTSTRUCT ps ;
    TEXTMETRIC  tm ;
    // TCHAR       szBuffer [4] ; // don''t think I need this

    
    static wchar_t wcText = ''a'';


                  TextOut (hdc, cixPlace, ciyPlace, &wcText, 1) ;

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