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Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
> 
> UTF-8 *is* the internal encoding. It is the best representation for most 
> cases.

Most of the cases with which you are dealing, I guess?

>>> What is the use of a string type without literals?

It's a lot like the use of a type without literals.



> Nobody ever uses Wide_Wide_String .

I do use Wide_Wide_String, but I'm nobody.

> Everything in computing is about and in encoding. Program is encoded 
> semantics. There is nothing else.

There is programming, which is about something.
I'm not primarily payed for being a computer.


>> Not all over the place.  Only where you need to (de)serialize the
>> strings.
> 
> Table tokens, constants, keys, parameters of subprograms are all in 
> their corresponding encodings. Most of them are in UTF-8, of course.

Bad design, as some would say: this seems to be 
dragging external coding issues right into the program's text.