RE: Unicode

["Curt Carpenter" <curtc@...>]

Now that I think about it, you'd still have to at least use the wide
string functions, which I guess is more than just defining the data type
for characters. What I don't want is just an automatic conversion
to/from ansi characters ("something built on top of strings"). That (any
conversion) is what I want to avoid.

I don't understand your comment about concatenating unicode strings.
What's wrong with wcscat?

Thanks,

Curt