<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">And since when usefulness on Windows defined anything Modula-3?<div><br></div><div>To use vastvastvastnumber of Windows functions on Modula-3 TEXT you must call at least one Modula-3 function on your argument to make it passable to Windows API function. To make another single-call Modula-3 function mapping UTF-8 to Windows API acceptable argument is five minutes task.</div><div><br></div><div>So, you are in fact gaining nothing with WIDECHAR you can't have with UTF8 packed in Text8.T.</div><div><br></div><div>32bit characters is what we have on non-Windows. And we must convert all the time if we are to use Modula-3 WIDECHAR based TEXT to non-Windows wchar strings. Are you arguing Windows is more important than all other platforms we support or what?</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Jun 30, 2012, at 6:52 PM, Jay K 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; "><br>I don't fully buy this. 16bit WIDECHAR is very useful on Windows.<br><br>It can be used directly with a vast vast vast vast number of functions.<br><br>32bit char would be require conversion to and from all the time.<br></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>