Ok, assuming you are using characters ascii 0-127 you could say


>> wideStringMangled := string convertFromWithConverter:  
>> (Latin1TextConverter new).

If you are using characters 128-255 then you do need to decide what  
character set they are...


On 3-Aug-06, at 3:38 PM, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:

> John,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> What I have is a smalltalk string.  I need to send it to the external
> function as a widestring.  I tried to find a smalltalk string that  
> I could
> try sending as char* by trying this:
>
> TextConverter allSubclasses collect: [:aConverter |
> 'MY' convertFromWithConverter: aConverter new
> ]
>
> I don't get anything different then a regular smalltalk string.
>
> So that didn't work.
>
> Do you have any other suggestions?
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