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On Thursday, 29 June 2017 18:22:53 UTC+1, G.B.  wrote:
> On 29.06.17 16:47, Lucretia wrote:
> > The current string mess. Remove it all and start again.
> 
> While at removing the string mess, remove strings altogether!

Well, not really, Unicode all the way. Provide the basics at the "string" / language level, then utils at the lib level.
 
There's just so much stuff I need unicode strings for and we just don't have good enough support for it.