[M3devel] This disgusting TEXT business

[Darko]

Besides breaking pickles (which isn't minor to those it affects) it  
also has the effect of doubling the size of String16 arrays and any  
wide strings or arrays. Why change the meaning of an existing type,  
possibly breaking unknown software when we can just define another  
type? It's not like another built-in type will cause anyone problems.

On 24/12/2008, at 6:15 AM, Mika Nystrom wrote:

> "Rodney M. Bates" writes:
> ...
>> It ought to cause minimal grief to just change WIDECHAR so it has a
>> big enough value range for all the Unicode values, probably 32 bits
>> in today's world.  Surely nobody has written any code that assumes
>> BITSIZE(WIDECHAR)=16. ;-)  Even if so, this shouldn't be a terribly
> ...
>
> Minor issue, I know, but... Pickles?
>
>    Mika