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> But it's still just a membuf library, without any string support. Just like the strings in the C and C++ standard library.

• rurban 8y ago
  Exactly. POSIX and the C/C++ standards don't support strings and utf-8 yet neither. coreutils and grep neither. Most computer languages neither. It's a mess and a big security risk. We are still in the stone age of string support.
  • flohofwoe 8y ago
    At least on Mac the command line utils support international text just fine, all text files are encoded as UTF-8 by convention, and (for instance) grep's case-insensitive search works for non-ASCII characters.
    • burntsushi 8y ago
      It's the same on Linux. GNU grep supports Unicode just fine, assuming, of course, your system's locale settings are configured correctly. :-)