Interesting summary of Borland's Kylix, which has nothing to do with Australian pop stars but, instead, is a Linux port of their Pascal/C++ development environments and runtime libraries, and its differences from DOS/Windows. (from Slashdot)

WideChar is (still) 2 byte Unicode. The Linux widechar type, wchar_t, is actually 4 bytes per character. 4 bytes!!! Ouch! The complete UCS specification (here's a summary) calls for 4 bytes per character to ensure that there is enough room in the character set to adequately represent all known languages and texts, living and dead, and room for future expansion, such as planetary invasion by Vogons. It would be a shame if Earth's character set couldn't represent Vogon poetry in its true native iconographs.

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