> Widestrings need to be like that for compatibility with c and c++
Not exactly, they need to be like this because the dang MS COM.
However I can't see why is this different than the AnsiString vs
Windows PChar-based API...
> There is probably another way around that, like using a normal
> ref-counted ansistring and work with the bytes inside it.
Sure, that's one of the possibilities.
-Flávio
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