"Bj�rn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil> wrote in message
news:7_Soc.92431$dP1.290953@newsc.telia.net...

Let's say I have a Wide_String that I need to convert to an array of
bytes. Each byte will of course contain half a Wide_Character, with the
other half in the next byte. Will I have to copy one character at a time
or is there a faster way to do this with representation clauses or
something? I'm thinking Unchecked_Conversion won't be reliable, because
if for example the byte array is packed and Wide_String is not, then (on
a 32-bit machine) I'll get two bytes of garbage between every two bytes
of character data.

Have you considered using streams and Wide_String'Write?

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Nick Roberts