My future perfect programming language will have explicit native types for strings: ansi, utf8, utf16, and unicode. The nth of any array works as expected for

My future perfect programming language will have explicit native types for strings: ansi, utf8, utf16, and unicode. The nth of any array works as expected for that type. Convert to bytes as needed. ansi "abcd"[1] -> byte utf8 "abcd"[1] -> char utf16 "abcd"[1] -> char utf8 "abcd".toBytes()[1] -> byte unicode "abcd"[1] -> word Were it still the 90s, I'd probably care about locales, so somehow imbue ansi arrays with that metadata.