Jonas Maebe wrote: >> Does that mean in the cpstrnew branch and on x86_64 systems, the UTF-8 >> string 'a' will be 9 bytes long? > > No, 25 bytes. The plain ansistring 'a' is already 17 bytes on x86_64 > platforms today. Is that because of sizeint? Wouldn't longint be long enough? Micha