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On Friday, 30 June 2017 12:11:53 UTC+1, Lucretia  wrote:


> 1) Character database.
> 2) Iterators over code points, word boundaries, grapheme clusters, etc.
> 3) BIDI iterators, if your want to render internationalised text.
> 

You just reminded me...

4) Normalisation conversion.
5) Sorting.
6) Unicode regular expressions.
7) Streaming.
8) Unbounded Unicode strings.

The amount of text processing people need to do in the 21st century is massive, Ada should make this easy to do, but it doesn't. Ada needs it's arse dragging into the modern world.