> This is nowhere near the chaos that C++ has. Standard C++ only has value-semantic C strings, and only supports fixed-width character encodings. It's not very

> This is nowhere near the chaos that C++ has. Standard C++ only has value-semantic C strings, and only supports fixed-width character encodings. It's not very rich, but I'd hardly call it 'chaos'. I'm happy to let my GUI library or DBMS handle collation and normalisation.