Andreas,

> Which confusion?
> 
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/stddef.h.html:
> 
> wchar_t
>      Integer type whose range of values can represent distinct 
> wide-character codes for all members of the largest character set 
> specified among the locales supported by the compilation environment: 
> the null character has the code value 0 and each member of the portable 
> character set has a code value equal to its value when used as the lone 
> character in an integer character constant.
> 
> There is really nothing confusing about it.

  Hmm, quoting the standard doesn't mean it is fine.  (Should I have
written "vague" or "platform-dependent"?)

  But, I stop wasting people's time.  WideString is ok with me.

-- Yoshiki