-Reads a string from a stream. Actually, this function first reads a long integer
-specifying the length of the string (without the last null character) and then
-reads the string.
+Reads a string from a stream. Actually, this function first reads a long
+integer specifying the length of the string (without the last null character)
+and then reads the string.
+
+In Unicode build of wxWidgets, the fuction first reads multibyte (char*)
+string from the stream and then converts it to Unicode using the {\it conv}
+object passed to constructor and returns the result as wxString. You are
+responsible for using the same convertor as when writing the stream.