Excellent - I now have a modified version of Slang which uses an array of wchar_t for each character, and compiles and links and everything. And, better, it even seems to work. Now to get it to output UTF-8...
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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