Olivier Mascia wrote:

>>1) Slow (because conversions will always be made).
>
> Do you happen to use Windows NT, Windows 2000 or Windows XP ?
> The whole API is based on Unicode (a 16 bits limited version of it).

*THAT* seems to be where I have been hitting problems ;)
It's the 'extra' conversion there that is messing up what I am seeing,
so now at least I can make some progress, but I still need to ensure
that what I am putting in can be got out transparently :(

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