Totally wrong. Your implied solution is to just have every single developer, everywhere, to be a linguistics expert and to handle the myriad of international ca

Totally wrong. Your implied solution is to just have every single developer, everywhere, to be a linguistics expert and to handle the myriad of international cases for basically everything. This is totally the wrong approach. Language is complex and sometimes ambiguous, but there are definitely a series of tools that should be integrated into every 'String' that can facilitate most problems. Not every company is trying to satisfy Hindi speakers. "That doesn't mean anything" This is false. It absolutely means something, you can't brush it aside by inventing a separate series of related measurements. Should we have those other measurements? - yes, in many cases, we probably should have them as well - which the whole point. We desperately need a series of common tools built into String, some of them which provide more nuance. "It's true that it's ignoring complexity, because you're ignorant to start with" Well, since I have a background in NLP, I've developed writing recognition and word prediction algorithms, as well as language models for dozens of languages for products used by millions of people every day ... maybe I'm not as ignorant as your snide remark suggests? "> That would help in English as it's really hard today just to deal emojis. It… really isn't." Uh, yes, it absolutely would help, and it's painfully obvious. In most languages, which cover the exceeding majority of markets for most apps made, simply knowing the character length (i.e. 'visible character' as to avoid confusion over messy nomenclature here) is very useful. In Latin languages, after Unicode normalization and other kinds of cleaning, Emojis present a very common case for confusion. There are very small set of tools (or rather, a slightly better, more standardized String approach) which would solve most of the problems for most companies developing for most markets. There are even a few extra tools which would solve, pragmatically all of them.