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[Marco Serantoni <marco.serantoni@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> This means that we eventually, we'll no longer need all the wxT() stuff,
> since we
> basically never put anything but ASCII characters in those wrappers and to
> convert from an
> ASCII string to UTF8 is simply a matter of copying bytes without any
> conversion at all.
> And converting ASCII bytes to UTF16 characters is simply a matter of
> zeroing out the upper
> byte.
>

I don't think is that simple for cyrillic, japanese and languages that used
accented or Diaeresized words.
There is an hard work on some of those aspects, i don't think we want to
trash it out.

--
Marco