On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:40:35PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[🔎] 20090811183800.GE5487@const.famille.thibault.fr> you wrote: > > Not necessarily. Any sane implementation should just use wchar_t > Which could be UTF16 and therefore still has complicatd length semantics. No, wchar_t is UCS-4 (or UCS-2 in esoteric implementations like Windows). Bastian -- Phasers locked on target, Captain.