Thanks for the lesson in hexadecimal!  That was a pretty dumb question ( and time wasted looking at the spec )!  ;D

I appreciate the explanation.  I'm going to go ahead an approve, although I guess the one thing I don't understand is whether there's actually a TODO item here or not.   Your explanation makes sense that we're crafting a DCS dynamically.   Is it possible for us to get the UTF16 from the parcel and decode properly?  It seems to me that we've implemented the only possible solution?