[M3devel] This disgusting TEXT business

[Mika Nystrom]

Darko writes:
>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.

stubgen, stablegen, ... :-)  no free lunch here, I'm afraid.

>
>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