Re: Version after Version

"J French" <erewhon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:37:41 +0200, "Maarten Wiltink"
> <maarten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Unicode is just a (really long) character set. It gets ugly when
>> you try to compress the characters. There's a simple solution: don't.
>> It's perfectly workable to have two-byte characters. Both in the
>> range of characters you can use and the memory it takes up.
>
> I suspect you have been spared the horrors of working with them in VB

I have been spared the horrors of working with VB full stop. To my great
relief.

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink


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