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- Fix string support.
 This would make strings a special kind of arrays flagged by the 
 [string] attribute. Pidl itself would support a couple of extra 
 attributes for it's own use while being compatible with other IDL 
 compilers. 
 Proposed extensions for pidl (to arrays):
   [convert(t)] attribute for forcing conversions from CH_UCS2, etc to UTF8
   [noterm] attribute -> Indicating there is no terminating character
   [nullterm] attribute -> Indicating the string is null terminated

The various flags for strings would change as follows:
 
LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_ASCII               -> [convert(CH_ASCII)]
LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_LEN4			    -> optionally [length_is()]
LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_SIZE4	            -> [size_is()] or if needed [conformant]
LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_NOTERM	            -> [noterm]
LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_NULLTERM            -> [nullterm]
LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_SIZE2	            -> uint16 length; [string] char data[length]
LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_BYTESIZE            -> uint16 length; [string] char data[length]
LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_FIXLEN32            -> [32]
LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_CONFORMANT          -> no longer needed
LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_CHARLEN	            -> ???
LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_UTF8                -> Nothing (but UCS2 has [convert(CH_UCS2)]
LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_FIXLEN15            -> [15]

- True multiple dimension array / strings in arrays support (closely related to 
	things specified above)