On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 06:48:58PM -0700, Hal Daume wrote:

is there a way to go from a CString to a PackedString w/o going through a normal String in the middle? or should i write my own?

If you can get a wchar_t * out of the app then that can be simply cast to a packedstring, this is quite speedy. if you use mbsrtowcs(3) and friends to do the conversion from char * then you get properly localized text via locale settings for free :) I have used this sort of thing for interfacing haskell to libraries where honoring locale was important in the past. John -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Meacham - California Institute of Technology, Alum. - john@foo.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------