If memory serves me right, Paolo Molaro wrote: > The CLR runtimes use 16 bit chars and UTF16-encoded strings (at least as > far as it's visible to the 'user' programs).
10 23.2.3 #Strings heap 11 The stream of bytes pointed to by a "#Strings" header is the physical representation of the logical string heap. 13 but parts that are reachable from a table shall contain a valid null terminated UTF8 string. When the #String So I think the runtime does a UTF16 conversion , I suppose ...So you're right ... all C# programs get UTF16 strings to work with... but that's not the way they're in meta-data... (JVM also has UTF8 strings and 16 bit chars, it's not really a big issue :) But coming back to parrot ... I don't think parrot uses UTF8 (from what I could gather it seems to be all ASCII ?) ... Or is UTF8 hiding in somewhere ?... Gopal -- The difference between insanity and genius is measured by success
