Btw. I'm fully aware that this is just the bytes vs unicode issue, taken to the next level. The difference however is that a) most data doesn't contain combini

Btw. I'm fully aware that this is just the bytes vs unicode issue, taken to the next level. The difference however is that a) most data doesn't contain combining code points while much data is non-ASCII unicode, and b) software (i.e. most software, with the exception of perl 6 and probably few others) doesn't have convenient support for glyph-level strings yet -- I wouldn't mind if it had.