Index: source/Plugins/Language/CPlusPlus/CPlusPlusLanguage.cpp
===================================================================
--- source/Plugins/Language/CPlusPlus/CPlusPlusLanguage.cpp
+++ source/Plugins/Language/CPlusPlus/CPlusPlusLanguage.cpp
@@ -656,7 +656,9 @@
     .SetDontShowChildren(true)
     .SetHideItemNames(true)
     .SetShowMembersOneLiner(false);
-    
+    const TypeSummaryImpl::Flags char_flags = widechar_flags;
+
+    AddCXXSummary(cpp_category_sp, lldb_private::formatters::CharSummaryProvider, "char summary provider", ConstString("char"), char_flags);
     AddCXXSummary(cpp_category_sp, lldb_private::formatters::Char16SummaryProvider, "char16_t summary provider", ConstString("char16_t"), widechar_flags);
     AddCXXSummary(cpp_category_sp, lldb_private::formatters::Char32SummaryProvider, "char32_t summary provider", ConstString("char32_t"), widechar_flags);
     AddCXXSummary(cpp_category_sp, lldb_private::formatters::WCharSummaryProvider, "wchar_t summary provider", ConstString("wchar_t"), widechar_flags);
Index: source/Plugins/Language/CPlusPlus/CxxStringTypes.h
===================================================================
--- source/Plugins/Language/CPlusPlus/CxxStringTypes.h
+++ source/Plugins/Language/CPlusPlus/CxxStringTypes.h
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
     namespace formatters
     {
         bool
+        CharSummaryProvider (ValueObject& valobj, Stream& stream, const TypeSummaryOptions&);
+
+        bool
         Char16StringSummaryProvider (ValueObject& valobj, Stream& stream, const TypeSummaryOptions& options); // char16_t* and unichar*
         
         bool
Index: source/Plugins/Language/CPlusPlus/CxxStringTypes.cpp
===================================================================
--- source/Plugins/Language/CPlusPlus/CxxStringTypes.cpp
+++ source/Plugins/Language/CPlusPlus/CxxStringTypes.cpp
@@ -131,6 +131,18 @@
 }
 
 bool
+lldb_private::formatters::CharSummaryProvider (ValueObject& valobj, Stream& stream, const TypeSummaryOptions&)
+{
+    bool success;    
+    int64_t code = valobj.GetValueAsSigned(0, &success);
+    if (!success)
+        return false;
+        
+    stream.Printf("%d %s", (int)code, valobj.GetValueAsCString());
+    return true;
+}
+
+bool
 lldb_private::formatters::Char16SummaryProvider (ValueObject& valobj, Stream& stream, const TypeSummaryOptions&)
 {
     DataExtractor data;
Index: test/lang/cpp/wchar_t/TestCxxWCharT.py
===================================================================
--- test/lang/cpp/wchar_t/TestCxxWCharT.py
+++ test/lang/cpp/wchar_t/TestCxxWCharT.py
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@
 
         if not process:
             self.fail("SBTarget.Launch() failed")
+        
+        # Check that summary for char type works
+        self.expect("frame variable c8",
+            substrs = ["(char) c8 = 104 'h'"])
 
         # Check that we correctly report templates on wchar_t
         self.expect("frame variable foo_y",
Index: test/lang/cpp/wchar_t/main.cpp
===================================================================
--- test/lang/cpp/wchar_t/main.cpp
+++ test/lang/cpp/wchar_t/main.cpp
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
     Foo<int> foo_x('a');
     Foo<wchar_t> foo_y(L'a');
     const wchar_t *mazeltov = L"מזל טוב";
+    char c8 = 'h';
     wchar_t *ws_NULL = nullptr;
     wchar_t *ws_empty = L"";
   	wchar_t array[200], * array_source = L"Hey, I'm a super wchar_t string, éõñž";