Since the strings are UTF-32 encoded…they are not readily visible in the Visual Studio debugger 
Yes, very annoying… I hope Jules will solve this soon.
It might be possible to write a simple visual studio addon to do that.
Don’t tackle an obfuscation by another larger obfuscation!
The code I posted on the other thread works for me. Basically, under Win32 define juce_wchar as wchar and you’re done.