C strings - byte, ubyte or char? (Discussion from Bugzilla)

[Regan Heath]

Frits van Bommel wrote:
> Regan Heath wrote:
>> Shouldn't it also be possible to pass a string literal to MessageBoxW, 
>> in which case the same treatment needs to be applied to wchar_t* AKA 
>> short*.
> 
> IIRC MessageBoxW takes its string in UTF-16, so a wchar* should be fine.

Ahh, of course, silly me :)