<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You had idea in other message. Store length!<div><br></div><div>Another idea - store partial list of indices to character locations. So whatever one does, that list can be used/expanded. Whatever storage issues this makes, they are probably minor as compared to 32bit WIDECHAR for all idea.</div><div><br></div><div>Mika had performance problems with cm3 TEXT. I hope he follows and cares to refresh us on those issues?!</div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 26, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Jay wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>I'm torn on that. We'd have to consider ramifications like Text.Length vs buffer size requirements/expectations.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Is TEXT & its use abstracted enough to have been widened? Should we put it back and introduce WIDETEXT? That is essentially what C and C++ do. They are inconvenient for existing code but simple predictable make sense. Contrast with weird hybrid systems like Perl & Python for which I just can't get through the documentation and understand and predict how they work..</div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>