diff --git a/GUI/host/host.cc b/GUI/host/host.cc
index 9ac4206..c91a99d 100644
--- a/GUI/host/host.cc
+++ b/GUI/host/host.cc
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 #include "const.h"
 #include "defs.h"
 #include "../vnrhook/hijack/texthook.h"
-#include <atlbase.h> // A2W
 
 namespace
 {
@@ -116,8 +115,7 @@ namespace
 				case HOST_NOTIFICATION_TEXT:
 				{
 					auto info = *(ConsoleOutputNotif*)buffer;
-					USES_CONVERSION;
-					Host::AddConsoleOutput(A2W(info.message));
+					Host::AddConsoleOutput(ToWString(info.message, CP_UTF8));
 				}
 				break;
 				default:
@@ -255,11 +253,10 @@ namespace Host
 			if (hooks[i].hp.address == addr)
 			{
 				buffer.resize(hooks[i].name_length);
-				ReadProcessMemory(pr.processHandle, hooks[i].hook_name, &buffer[0], hooks[i].name_length, nullptr);
+				ReadProcessMemory(pr.processHandle, hooks[i].hook_name, buffer.data(), hooks[i].name_length, nullptr);
 			}
 		ReleaseMutex(pr.sectionMutex);
-		USES_CONVERSION;
-		return std::wstring(A2W(buffer.c_str()));
+		return ToWString(buffer.c_str(), CP_UTF8);
 	}
 
 	TextThread* GetThread(ThreadParam tp)
diff --git a/GUI/host/host.h b/GUI/host/host.h
index e70ffc1..c1b4c15 100644
--- a/GUI/host/host.h
+++ b/GUI/host/host.h
@@ -28,4 +28,12 @@ namespace Host
 	TextThread* GetThread(ThreadParam tp);
 	void AddConsoleOutput(std::wstring text);
 }
+
+inline std::wstring ToWString(const char* text, UINT encoding)
+{
+	std::wstring ret(strlen(text), 0);
+	ret.resize(MultiByteToWideChar(encoding, 0, text, -1, ret.data(), ret.size()));
+	return ret;
+}
+
 // EOF
diff --git a/GUI/host/textthread.cc b/GUI/host/textthread.cc
index 4136953..151ad20 100644
--- a/GUI/host/textthread.cc
+++ b/GUI/host/textthread.cc
@@ -27,17 +27,9 @@ void TextThread::Flush()
 	std::wstring sentence;
 	{
 		LOCK(ttMutex);
-		if (buffer.size() < 400 && (GetTickCount() - timestamp < 250 || buffer.size() == 0)) return; // TODO: let user change delay before sentence is flushed
-		if (status & USING_UNICODE)
-		{
-			sentence = std::wstring((wchar_t*)buffer.data(), buffer.size() / 2);
-		}
-		else
-		{
-			wchar_t* converted = new wchar_t[buffer.size()];
-			sentence = std::wstring(converted, MultiByteToWideChar(status & USING_UTF8 ? CP_UTF8 : 932, 0, buffer.data(), buffer.size(), converted, buffer.size()));
-			delete[] converted;
-		}
+		if (buffer.size() < 400 && (GetTickCount() - timestamp < flushDelay || buffer.size() == 0)) return; // TODO: let user change delay before sentence is flushed
+		if (status & USING_UNICODE) sentence = std::wstring((wchar_t*)buffer.data(), buffer.size() / 2);
+		else sentence = ToWString(buffer.data(), status & USING_UTF8 ? CP_UTF8 : SHIFT_JIS);
 		buffer.clear();
 	}
 	AddSentence(sentence);
diff --git a/GUI/host/textthread.h b/GUI/host/textthread.h
index 5193bd1..f00c61d 100644
--- a/GUI/host/textthread.h
+++ b/GUI/host/textthread.h
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ public:
 	const std::wstring name;
 	const ThreadParam tp;
 
+	inline static unsigned flushDelay = 250; // flush every 250ms by default
+
 private:
 	void Flush();
 
diff --git a/include/const.h b/include/const.h
index b6b70ba..144fa52 100644
--- a/include/const.h
+++ b/include/const.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 // 8/23/2013 jichi
 // Branch: ITH/common.h, rev 128
 
-enum { MESSAGE_SIZE = 500, PIPE_BUFFER_SIZE = 0x1000 };
+enum { MESSAGE_SIZE = 500, PIPE_BUFFER_SIZE = 0x1000, SHIFT_JIS = 932 };
 
 // jichi 375/2014: Add offset of pusha/pushad
 // http://faydoc.tripod.com/cpu/pushad.htm